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Solidarity Hall is a website interested in formulating new visions for civil society. Their initial project is an attempt to recover communitarian ideas from thinkers like G.K. Chesterton, Jane Jacobs,…

Herewith the spanking-new trailer for Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg) directed and yrs truly scripted from a novella by the great novelist of Upstate New York--no, not J.F. Cooper but…

Memories....

Alexandra Bradner, a philosophy professor at the University of Kentucky, has a piece at The Atlantic on women's "second shifts." Noting that women, mothers in particular, are both "important" and "exploited,"…

Here is an article describing a method of producing vegetation and fish in a symbiotic relationship all without dirt. Could this, as the title of the article suggests, revolutionize the…

We are currently planning the 3rd Annual FPR Conference. This year it will be held on September 21 at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Program details are coming soon, but…

A recent study suggests that individualized and pre-packaged food changes the way families think about mealtime. Could there be a link between the kind of meal eaten for dinner and…

Berwyn, PA.  Mark Mitchell, FPR's founding father and Editor-in-Chief, will deliver a lecture at Villanova University next week.  The event is open to the public, and any FPR readers in…

What happens when a really rich dude meets Olga and learns that companionship is better than toys? We get lectured.

I've been sitting in an airport most of today, subject to the inescapable barrage of manufactured outrage that is CNN, and was offered this lifeline of sanity from a reader.…

Reader Deirdre points out that another phone commercial is at least at troubling as the Sprint Unlimited ad. According to this ad, The Droid is not an upgrade on your…

This week marks the fourth anniversary of Front Porch Republic. I recently looked back through these first four years and was struck by the wonderful group of writers who have…

Here's an intriguing example of how a community is attempting to create space for children to play. Opening the streets to children means closing them to cars, and that’s why…

Conor Friedersdorf suggests an interesting thought experiment: Imagine that President Obama is visited by aliens who give him the power to kill any human being with his mind. Simply by…

...a Utica Club.

Perhaps one of the most influential philosophers of of time is Alvin Plantinga. He's just been awarded the prestigious Rescher Prize for his work. Here's a piece describing his work…

For those who are Catholic, or at least have an interest in the fate of the Catholic Church in our contemporary political environment, Chad Pecknold has an interesting piece over…

A few readers in response to my most recent piece expressed some incredulity about the chart showing that Americans paid, on average, about 30% of their income in taxes. This…

Via Reason, my review of Amy S. Greenberg's A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico: http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/05/americas-war-with-mexico.

For those of you in the Louisville area, on February 7, the Mcconnell Center is hosting a discussion titled "reThink Big: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Search for Humane Scale." Here's…

So after the progressive improvers come and leave, someone has to clean up. For years we Michiganders have silently, or not so silently, wept over the plight of Detroit. But…

Here is the video of a talk I gave January 21 at Northwood University. The title: "Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Foundation of the Free Market."

Alex Williams writes yet another piece in today's NYTimes on the end of courtship. Mark Mitchell has posted  about this in the past, and I certainly cannot improve on Mark's observations.…

    Washington DC When President Obama took office in 2009, many friends of capitalism were concerned that he would socialize our economy. Yet corporate profits have hit record heights…