- September 3, 2013My review of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, is now available at Humanitas. In case you're interested.
- August 26, 2013Here is the program for our upcoming conference titled "City People, Country People: Being a Localist in the Megalopolis." It will…
- August 26, 2013FPR readers can now enjoy another web magazine that complements the already excellent work of the Front Porch Republic. Nomocracy In…
- August 23, 2013Now a company called Mindflash has a new technology to make sure you pay attention to your computer screen. It…
- August 20, 2013When St. Thomas reflected on charity, and in particular alms-giving, he stressed the immediacy and locality of it: charity requires…
August 18, 2013Hillsdale, Michigan. Sports is not one of the topics that regularly comes up on the Front Porch. Human flourishing, whatever…- August 13, 2013Here's a piece encouraging people and companies to resist encroachments by the NSA. Consider these examples: Already companies are taking…
- August 12, 2013I am pleased to announce that The Violent and the Fallen, the second book of poems by James Matthew Wilson,…
- August 9, 2013Wendell Berry has written about the salutary effects of living and working in the same place, but I'm not sure…
- August 8, 2013Three principles. The first is Stein's Law: if something can't go on forever, it won't. The second is that governing…
- August 7, 2013I recently heard of a guy who was getting nasty letters from his HOA because he was, shall we say,…
- August 7, 2013Apropos this year's FPR Conference comes this Times story from Robert Putnam, who laments the decline of his hometown of Port…
