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  Today marks the first anniversary of the Front Porch Republic.  Such a milestone provides an opportunity to cast a quick glance back on the year and indicate a bit…

How about REAL Front Porches? Could FPR be the ultimate dating service?

When economic growth finally levels off, what kind of world comes after? Shall we be unchained from the mad rush for money of the last century? Or will other but…

Increase regulations or remove the safety net?

Jesse Walker has written a nice remembrance of the anarchist Colin Ward.

“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

But what would bring Tiger back? Does anybody think he would go to confession? I mean, heck, Bill Clinton still thinks he has the moral upper hand on Ken Starr.

Three years ago, I could not imagine Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll. Now he has. The doom and gloom evoked by the rich and powerful are realities in…

Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?

The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how…

Yes, a good dinner conversation is akin to chimps licking fleas off each other because it is a way of bonding and establishing relationships and hierarchies within the group.

For years, two-faced Republican demagogues have served up phony-baloney about how much they love little country churches, Norman Rockwell paintings, and old-fashioned American life, even while they were simultaneously encouraging…

What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."

The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.

Obama's energy initiatives offer little change, and less hope. Large nuclear plants with massive power grids are no solution.

David Brooks on the meritocracy: good critique, bad conclusion.

Less happy for mother is the reality that the single soul, resulting from this communion of two bodies, receives nourishment from single-malt.

Whatever else you make of Facebook friendship, it underscores the great and significant discrepancy between: 1) the scale of contemporary life, and 2) the scale of friendship.

Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of…

"Memory and imagination, as Vico says in the New Science, are closely connected to ingenuity (in Italian, ingegno; in Latin, ingenium) as the power to form hypotheses in science and…

Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?

With friends like this, you can have a world full of enemies at your back and it don't matter because your friend is your fortress.

A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.

As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”