Jeffrey Bilbro
Editor in Chief
Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.
Articles by Jeffrey Bilbro
Poverty, Progressives, and Publics
In an absolute barn burner of an essay, Matthew Walther asks hard questions about our obligations to those rendered passive, distracted, and poor by our technological society.
Brigid, Ozempic, and Stehekin
“Big Ag Has Corrupted Our Food System. Here’s How We Can Rebuild.” Sara June Jo-Sæbo talks with Austin Frerick about how to fix America’s broken food economy: “The first antitrust…
Economic Republicanism, the Second Amendment, and Isolation
Charles Carman reviews Kingsnorth’s new book, and while he finds some flaws that frustrates him, he also argues that it has warnings we should take seriously.
Memorization, Gamification, Sanctification
James Pogue, one of the best journalists writing today, profiles a Washington representative with an unconventional approach.
Dorothy Day, Tanya Berry, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Kristin M. Collier contemplates the practice of medicine predicated on a creaturely view of persons.
Inheriting Wisdom’s Mansion: A Review of An Invitation to the Liberal Arts
Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.
Plumbers, Pepsi, and the Amish
Antón Barba-Kay articulates the appeal of Curtis Yarvin and diagnoses the very-online irony that marks his rhetoric.
The State of the Porch
FPR aims to gather and encourage those who aspire to a creaturely life even in a machine age.
Attention, Housing, and Subscriptions
Ezra Klein wrestles with the limitations of liberalism in the face of big tech efforts to capture users’ attention.
Miłosz, Butz, and Han
Eric Miller pens a beautiful review of Wendell Berry’s new novel and reflects on the stories and structures that hold sustaining cultures in place.