Matt Stewart

Matt Stewart
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Matt Stewart is a teacher at The Ambrose School in Meridian, Idaho. He holds a PhD in history from Syracuse University and has published essays and reviews with Current, Boom California, Fides et Historia, and High Country News. He is the author of Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California.

Recent Essays

Brass Spittoon: Classical Education

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While the siren call of STEM is still music to most ears and classical schools are educating only a small percentage of American students, classical schools have grown steadily. Joshua Gibbs, Adam Roate, and Amanda Patchin discuss their merits.

Call Me Lucifer

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Alexa is no doubt low-hanging fruit for the readers of Front Porch Republic. It is a place-contaminating, unlimited tyrant. If you've purchased one, watch out. When the lights start pulsing and your smart speaker starts shrieking, it will be too late. The peloton of drone-wraiths will be only seconds away.

Brass Spittoon: Are Lab-Grown Foods a Good Idea?

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Gracy Olmstead, Garth Brown, and Jason Peters on whether Solein can save the planet.

Brass Spittoon: Imagining Hope for 2020

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Wilfred M. McClay, Bethany Hebbard, and Jake Meador consider what recent trends—considered at the local, regional, and global scales—give reason for hope in 2020.

Love and Fear, Expertise and Regulation

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Much of the American reading public would be as surprised to find that there was once an environmentalist Right as they would be to...

Notes on Nike

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An honest question: why was Zoolander III: Kendall Jenner and Pepsi Notice Some Serious Issues laughed into shameful corners of the internet immediately while...

A Digital Relation to the Universe

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Matt's essay concludes our discussion of "Localist Social Media." You can view all the essays in this symposium here.    When I first submitted my attempt...

Stop Talking about Wendell Berry on Twitter

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Editor's Note: Matt's piece kicks off a mini-symposium on the question of whether localists should use social media, and if so, how. As a...

“Anything Less than Ownership is Unacceptable!”

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Many Americans do not need a data visualization to see that their places, especially their cities, are sharply divided along racial lines. Even so,...
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