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Asides

  • March 8, 2013
    I've been sitting in an airport most of today, subject to the inescapable barrage of manufactured outrage that is CNN,…
  • March 5, 2013
    Reader Deirdre points out that another phone commercial is at least at troubling as the Sprint Unlimited ad. According to…
  • March 5, 2013
    For four years, with the exception of our annual conference, FPR has been primarily a digital venture. But like most…
  • March 3, 2013
    This week marks the fourth anniversary of Front Porch Republic. I recently looked back through these first four years and…
  • February 28, 2013
    Here's an intriguing example of how a community is attempting to create space for children to play. Opening the streets…
  • February 22, 2013
    FPR readers and enthusiasts are invited to attend the coming Ciceronian Society Conference at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg,…
  • February 21, 2013
    Conor Friedersdorf suggests an interesting thought experiment: Imagine that President Obama is visited by aliens who give him the power…
  • February 15, 2013
    ...a Utica Club.
  • February 6, 2013
    Perhaps one of the most influential philosophers of of time is Alvin Plantinga. He's just been awarded the prestigious Rescher…
  • February 6, 2013
    For those who are Catholic, or at least have an interest in the fate of the Catholic Church in our…
  • February 5, 2013
    A few readers in response to my most recent piece expressed some incredulity about the chart showing that Americans paid,…
  • February 5, 2013
    Via Reason, my review of Amy S. Greenberg's A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of…