Front Porch Republic 18
The Road Taken
Sometimes an important change becomes evident only in retrospect - not while it’s happening across quiet broken days alone in a house while autumn succumbs to shadow and cold.
Free America, The Front Porch Republic, and America’s Decentralist Tradition
The contributors to Free America belonged to one another and to the vision of a humane society, one founded on distributed property. Just because this vision has been drowned out…
FPR Year in Review
It's been a busy year in the virtual pages of FPR. Exciting things have been happening in what I believe is now called "meatspace"---we hosted our largest-ever conference celebrating the…
Being Present on the Porch
I was not on board the FPR train early enough to be considered one of its engineers. I met Mark Mitchell at a conference in New Mexico, and heard him…
And Then Begin Again With What Remains: A 10-Year FPR Retrospective
On the tenth anniversary of FPR we must admit a little sadly that we’re still relevant.
Front Porch Republic at 10
Hidden Springs Lane, VA In the spring of 2009, when the economic crisis of the previous year was continuing to unfold, a group of academics and other writers joined forces…
The Original Front Porch
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…
Updating the Porch
The noise you are hearing is the furniture moving on the porch. You may have already noticed the redesigned site. Jeff Bilbro has taken the helm as Editor-in-Chief, replacing Jeff…
Reviving the Conversation on the Porch
I’m honored and excited to be joining the Front Porch Republic in a more official capacity and taking over the editorial duties for this site. When I stumbled across FPR…
FPR at TAC
Gracy Olmstead attended the FPR conference in Louisville and gives this fine description of the conference and the localist ideals animating FPR. Excerpt: One elderly gentleman sat with his wife…
Irish Spring (’14 Issue)
From Notre Dame Magazine, the always excellent Jay Walljasper on the promise of the Front Porch.
The Limits of Place
Hidden Springs, VA. Recently Ross Douthat commented on Rod Dreher’s new book in a column devoted to the rising incidence of suicide and the problem of loneliness. In a follow-up…
Democracy and Coercion
Like other readers here at FPR, and across the web, I have been following the Great Salyer/Carter Debate of 2012 with much interest. I thought Mr. Salyer’s original article was…
Agrarian Hypocrisy and the Evils of Distributism
One thing that has amused me in these first three years of FPR’s existence is the tendency of some readers to single out one or two articles and lament that…
There’s No Place Like Home
Absent is the self-examination of the person in the mirror and how we exchange with loved ones around the dinner table. Forgotten is how to live a life more thoughtfully,…
FPR: One Year Old
Today marks the first anniversary of the Front Porch Republic. Such a milestone provides an opportunity to cast a quick glance back on the year and indicate a bit…
What Is to be Done?
On Amtrak Regional Train 130 Daniel Larison has written a number of related postings here (and here) and elsewhere that have insistently raised and sought to answer the question: what…
The Internet Won’t Feed You, and Neither Will We
Rod Dreher posts a letter from a young 'un asking about law school and farming. Similarly, a commenter here last week asked: I have only ever been acquainted, through my extended…