As North Korea Goes Nuclear Far East Ambassadors Must Speak Up
I lived much of my adult life under Terry Branstad’s multiple tenures as governor of Iowa, and I think he did a “pretty fair...
And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from...
“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
Breaking Through the Screen Door: The Jayhawks’ Hollywood Town Hall, Twenty-Five...
A couple of years ago my wife had a minor accident, the kind that results in an older car being mysteriously “totaled.” Before the...
Reviving the Conversation on the Porch
I’m honored and excited to be joining the Front Porch Republic in a more official capacity and taking over the editorial duties for this...
A Republic of Front Porches
ALEXANDRIA, VA. Names are important, and few can be more significant than what a new publication calls itself. Perhaps at first greeting the...
The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America (Front Porch Republic Books)
Entrance:Virtual America’s Convention Hall
Demise—1) the conveyance of an estate 2) transfer
of the sovereignty to a successor 3) a: death b:...
Front Porch Republic and the Communion of Saints
By Kim Daniels and Chad C. Pecknold
Wendell Berry might well be the patron saint of Front Porch Republic. Or at least –when we attended FPR’s first...
Baseball: Official Sport of the Front Porch Republic?
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball” –Jacques Barzun
Grove City, PA. Opening Day, 2011 Dutifully following the links...
Bernie Sanders: Front Porch Socialist?
This October, Front Porch Republic will host its annual conference in Geneseo, NY, just a short day's drive from Burlington, Vermont, the home current...
How Marx Explains the Pomo-Con/Front-Porch Divide, In Four Easy Steps
Via Rod Dreher, I see that the occasionally interesting blog Postmodern Conservative has departed its longtime home at the (often, if not always) theoconservative...