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FPR Conference on Sept. 24: Questions of Scale

Dear friends of FPR, Please join us at the inaugural Front Porch Republic conference on Saturday, September 24, at Mount St....

Making Hookups Happen

Enterprising students at the University of Chicago have managed to combine two of the central interests of the contemporary student: casual sex and facebook....

Whom You Have Sex With is My Business

BYU’s suspension of forward Brandon Davies for having sex with his girlfriend has divided the sports blogosphere between those who applaud the University for...

For Craft and Country: Richard Wakefield’s Eminent Domain

Richard Wakefield’s book of poems takes its place as one more important and hard-won advance in the restoration of good poetry to our culture.

God, Philosophy, Universities

Review of MacIntyre's book.

Global Citizens of the World: Fly!

How to feel good about yourself on $50,000 a day.

Humanity and Honor, Culture and Clarity

Sometimes when you sit in the pew you get the feeling that the preacher is talking to you. Of course, this impression is magnified...

Dilemmas of conservatism: start with the labeling…

A new book provides profiles of seminal conservative thinkers. But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.

Why Australia Needs a Renewed Culture of Natural Marriage

Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.

In Praise of Gossip

Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.