Jeff Polet of Hope College in Holland, MI is assuming the role of editor-in-chief of FPR. Jeff brings energy, creativity, and a commitment to the ideals of place, limits, and liberty, and I am confident that FPR will thrive under his watch. I will continue as president of FPR, Inc. our non-profit that oversees the website, Front Porch Republic Books, and the annual FPR conference.
Our recent conference in Louisville was a great success and served as a reminder to those who attended that the ideas we’ve been promoting for nearly six years are essential in a world all too often characterized by an inability to think or act in terms of localism or the limits that localism implies.
Anyone that Jason Peters both makes fun of and buys beers for must be a good guy. Thank you, Jeff, for taking over the reins and kudos to you, Mr. Mitchell, for relinquishing the reins when you saw fit. All the best to FPR and Wendell Berry’s vision; may we all find our way to live up to it.
– Jason Fisher
Thank you, Mark, for all the ways you have worked to make this site an important one for so many of us that are trying, both just within our own heads and through our own families and neighborhoods and communities, to work out a defense of that which is most important, without relying too much on categories of thought which derive from liberal modernism. I have valued FPR a tremendous amount, and your labors are major reason why it is valuable. Many thanks!
Thanks, Mark, for your leadership and insights on this site. I hope you will continue to contribute an essay here and there.
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