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". . . among the keenest minds in contemporary American letters." ---Allan Carlson

Okay, one more advert for myself, or rather my latest, lukewarm off the presses from Front Porch Republic Books: Poetry Night at the Ballpark and other Scenes from an Alternative…

I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau.

From Notre Dame Magazine, the always excellent Jay Walljasper on the promise of the Front Porch.

This is the last audience to which I should announce such a thing but after fumbling an editing gig or two because I lacked a one-stop site containing my bio,…

While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are…

I value a writer who makes me read with a dictionary. Godspeed the man with a memory.

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 But Lord, please, please don't read them through the outdated narrative of traditional cons, neocons, and laissez-faire cons.

In which Bill Kauffman bids a hopeful aloha to the American Imperium.

The most recent issue of The American Conservative will be of interest to folks on the Porch.

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.

That's the point made darn well by Stefan McDaniel as part of his response to globalization defenders (the link will take you back to the whole debate). A while back,…

JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS.  The review below was first published in the Intercollegiate Review in the fall of 2006.  Look Homeward, America was my first introduction to the work of the…