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A Conversation with Bill Kauffman
I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau. Read Full Article... The post A Conversation with Bill Kauffman appeared first on Front Porch Republic. Related posts: FPR Books: A New...
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The Noble Doubt and the Cardinal’s Certain Flight
The cardinal's steely resolve is touchingly quixotic. Read Full Article... The post The Noble Doubt and the Cardinal’s Certain Flight appeared first on Front Porch Republic. Related posts: On Being a...
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The Blouse, the Pig, and the Fox
I can’t lead a fast break any more, but I can still see sideways. Read Full Article... The post The Blouse, the Pig, and the Fox appeared first on Front Porch Republic. Related posts: In the Season of...
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And Now a Bubble Burst, And Now a World
What but design of darkness to appall? Read Full Article... The post And Now a Bubble Burst, And Now a World appeared first on Front Porch Republic. Related posts: See You at the Movies… Herewith the...
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Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Twenty years ago, the concept and label “communitarianism” was riding high, or at least as high as any broadly applicable yet intellectually coherent ideological...
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Wichita and the Dilemma of Mid-Sized Cities
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] There’s been some depressing news here in Wichita, Kansas, of late. Not the sort of depressing news that one might typically fear to hear when one speaks about city...
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Christopher Lasch and the Lasting Delimma of Localism
[Cross-posted to In Media Res] This past weekend, at the annual Front Porch Republic gathering (this year held at SUNY-Geneseo), three scholars reflected upon the writings of the historian and...
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Seeing Like A Traffic App
A year ago I started exploring my traffic navigation app, wondering what advice it would give about the various routes I took to work in southern California. I found the device quite enlightening...
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Monastic Stability: In One Place with God and Others
Some time ago I was asked if I would be willing to participate in a forum on localism. I hesitated. I did not even know what localism specifically was about though the name itself ‘localism’ offered a...
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The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred
He wrote sixty-five books and had a hand in another hundred and thirty-five. Read Full Article... The post The Holy Earth and Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Front Porch Cred appeared first on Front Porch...
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An Ordinary Life and the Pitfalls of Greatness
I will confess that when J. Arthur Bloom announced he was joining Front Porch Republic’s editorial team, I had not heard of it. So I went and took a look, and from a few basic summaries of what it…...
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A Better Place to Watch a Game
Only an idiot would really miss the old Durham Athletic Park – or, if not an idiot, then only someone who hadn’t actually spent much time there and didn’t know that at the old stadium there wasn’t...
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Saving Trees Across The Ocean
The view from above was one of devastation, even if it was the pregnant devastation of a construction site that is not what it will finally become. The leafy green grove of a few days before was a sea...
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Finding ‘Boston Strong’ In Oklahoma
I’d been through this movie before. Streets closed to traffic, a procession of elite athletes before tens of thousands of spectators. And then the cheers turned into screams. Abandoned strollers...
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FPR Update
Dear Readers, When FPR launched in 2009, we weren’t sure what to expect. We knew our culture, economy, and politics were broken, and believed that we would have some repairs in mind. Given what has...
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Branding Disaster
Earlier this year, after the Charlie Hebdo shootings, I reflected on the conversations that may or may not ensue from the changing of a facebook profile picture. As my facebook news feed in the last...
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