Front Porch Republic

Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?

It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take the Xaverian out of the man.

Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough characters are aglow.

A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.

The fabled pearly gates may be a noisy place.

I recently learned the most effective cure ever for blisters: iodine. I had no idea; and I bet your mother, like mine, told you to bandage a blister and never, ever drain it. Leave it alone, they say. Put a…

Churches aren’t offering peace. They’re optimizing for engagement. And what gets built in the end is impressive. But like all “Babels,” it can’t bear the weight of the human soul.

In a fragmented age increasingly seduced by the cult of the self, "Wuthering Heights" challenges us to reclaim the difficult virtues that make real community possible.

You are probably familiar with the concept of the “Sports Illustrated cover jinx.”

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."