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Lessons on Limits from the Cougar Prophet
If a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down, I took my prescription of limits and localism with a spoon full of pretty sweet sugar indeed. About 20…
Intellectual Historians on Intellectual Conservatism
Seth Bartee over at the U.S. Intellectual History blog has a piece on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute which includes a reference or two to FroPo conservatives: Essentially neo-conservatives successfully homogenized…
Thoughts on Statesmanship in a Season of Dearth
One may notice in this election cycle a certain amount of talk about statesmanship – primarily because each of the candidates is thought to lack it. The latest issue of…
Tocqueville and Beyond
In a recent interview Chilton Williamson talks about his new book After Tocqueville, described by former FPR contributor John Willson as “the best book on democracy in the past hundred years.”…
Leaving Washington
Notre Dame, IN. It was on the virtual “pages” of the Front Porch Republic that I announced last February that I was leaving Georgetown University, in Washington D.C., to accept a…
Life Under Compulsion
In 1940, when the Nazis attacked their supposed racial kinfolk in Norway and set up a puppet government under the odious Quisling, the novelist Sigrid Undset fled to the countryside…
A Goodman is Hard to Find
I’m happy to report that New York Review Books has just reprinted Growing Up Absurd (1960), Paul Goodman’s classic plea for the human scale against the postwar corporate and military-industrial…
The Dangerous Alliance of Big Government and Big Business
The most important political conversation Americans need to have is about how the old conversations no longer matter. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party—called the one-and-a-half party system by…
Historian on the Debate
The blogosphere is filled with opinions on last night's debate between the president and the challenger. The chattering classes has gotten a whole lot larger. Unless you are a historian…
Take Me Home
This excerpt is taken from Eric Miller's new book: Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longings. The Penn State University geographer Wilbur Zelinsky believes something exists called the “Pennsylvania Culture…
Political Hope, Spiritual Longing
The following is an excerpt from a new book by Eric Miller: Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longings. Of all the distinctive raiment with which Americans garb themselves,…
The Banks we Deserve, the Economy we can Sustain
If you didn't catch this panel put on by Marketplace and BBC, it's pretty exciting. It takes the expert panel only about 10 minutes (2:00 to 12:40) to get to…
Hospitality at a Fractured Table
“It sure is hard to have people over to dinner these days,” the food writer lamented, at a talk I attended the other week. She told a sorry tale of…
Thought Control and Controlling Our Thoughts
Last evening I had the joy of taking a dozen-plus college students to the Abbey of the Genesee for the first of this year’s “Newman Community Book Discussion with Monks.” The…
Walter McDougall on American Exceptionalism
In the afterglow of last weekend's gathering of Porchers, which featured a panel on American exceptionalism, a piece by Walter McDougall over at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's website comes…
Eros, Agape, and Community
From the The Orthosphere come Part I and Part II of the pseudonymous physicist Bonald's reflections on Christianity, love, and community--reflections based in part upon the work of one of the twentieth century’s…
The Springs of the Scamander
One of the most memorable passages in the Iliad occurs in Book 22, during the climactic scene when Achilles is chasing Hector around the walls of Troy. As Achilles closes…
Upcoming Poetry Readings
For those readers who might be interested, I've recently published my first collection of poems, Distant Lands and Near, available here. Also, those who are aficionados of traditional poetry might be interested…
Town Fabric and Placemaking
This excerpt is the second in a three-part series from Eric Jacobsen’s book, The Space Between. Read Part I here. Town Fabric and Placemaking The built environment plays an important…
Place and Space: An Excerpt from The Space Between
Place and Space Place, in contrast to space, is a context-specific, meaning-rich concept. Although many use the two words interchangeably, a fairly clean distinction can be made between them. Space…
Don’t It Make You Wanna Go Home Now?
Joe South, RIP: http://youtu.be/8V1JJqNKjVU. "God, how I wanna go home...."
Senior Moment
If Virginia is for lovers (what an odd campaign that was), Michigan should be for duffers. I understand why some FroPo's may object to the sport alleged to spoil a…
The View From Your Front Porch
Olathe, Kansas -- On Saturday I looked back from my front porch, my walk having been cut short by a soft rain. As you can see, my grass and that…
