Culture, High & Low

First, let me extend my greetings to the readers of the Front Porch Republic. I have been following conversations here at FPR since...

Devon, PA.  I have contended that the two most vocal sources of outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remark about the deleterious role of condoms...

Claremont, CA - I don't know how to tie a tie. But now I know that I am not alone. Do this: On Google, type...

RINGOES, NJ. March Madness is finally over. And for the first time in years, I actively participated in the madness. For most of our...

OWEN TOWNSHIP, WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS: According to one legend, the word Iowa means "Place of the Drowsy Ones" in some extinct Indian tongue. This...

The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision. Politics is not a time machine and...

Wichita, Kansas. I have a blogging (and occasional real world, actual face-to-face) friend by the name of Laura McKenna. She is funny, smart, occasionally...

Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's...

It's not only that the richest people are getting richer; it's the richest places, too. And even within regions -- southern California, say -- rich suburbs have become wealthier and other suburbs' fortunes have declined. "Just as the gap between rich and poor widened at the individual level," Dreier and company note, "it widened tremendously between suburban places." You can see this trend reflected, among other places, in that great bellwether of American life: teen cinema.