Front Porch Republic

With "Civil War" and now "Warfare," the writer-director has made two consecutive movies about the “what” of armed conflicts rather than the “why”

I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and press deeper into the thicket of questions of manliness.

It is such a joy to finally figure out something my son has been trying to say. Just so, it is a joy when a particular passage of Scripture finally breaks open.

Chatbots aren’t new. Joseph Weizenbaum created one in 1966. And what happened next led him to become a vocal critic of his own creation. What did he see that we need to see now?

Still it waves. Still it sings.

In 2024, I held my first Margarita Mile. I’ve done more since then. It’s simple. I invite a group of friends. Using sidewalk chalk, I mark a start line and some arrows on the sidewalk in front of my house.

When the wood deepened, the clean wearing of the earth itself wore away into indistinguishable concord.

In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and corners of his own mind, given sufficient time.

Dobson knew his influence was on one side of the political divide and kept his focus and advocacy there. Political loyalties came first.

How we use our free time might be the difference between a professionally successful but ultimately mediocre life and the life of a saint.

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or, perhaps, light from inside the petals of a flower)--

On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States