Caleb Stegall

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Front Porch Republic. To honor the occasion, we'll be running a few essays by some of the original Porchers in which they…

Looting as the psycho-spiritual symbol of the welfare age: "But it’s more than childish destructiveness motivating the rioters. At a more fundamental level, these are youngsters who are uniquely alienated…

"[I]n February, Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, warned against the violent possibilities of a farmland bubble, telling the Senate Agriculture Committee that 'distortions…

What kind of conservative takes a dim view of his country’s established institutions, feels something less than at home with its way of life as it actually lives it, and…

Last time, Palin wasn't the point. This time, she is.

Is the Porch anti-American?

A clarifying discussion.

Where else can one find such a wide ranging, wise, witty, and downright winsome collection of thinkers and writers in one tactile, fold-over-double, take-to-the-porcelain-throne, nap-with-on-the-couch, 100-percent-carpal-tunnel-free place?

What's left? The overschooled and the underschooled, both of them unusually dependent upon government largesse, or upon government largeness.

Michael Kinsley amps up Patrick's "false choice" rhetoric.

Where does that leave us? With the difficult job of recovering the sturdy Jeffersonian virtues of the freeman—virtues of thrift, being rooted in one’s place, hard work, pride of ownership,…

It may turn out that both intellectual development and the pursuit of filthy lucre are best pursued without the millstone of a college degree (and the debts, both monetary and…