The Monday Morning Brass Spittoon: Roundtable on the Elections
While most of our writers are self-described conservatives, FPR has been, for the most part, a non-partisan enterprise. This is in no small part...
Conservatism, Localism, and the Mittelpolitan Problem
This morning, I completed a series of lectures and discussions with a local civic group here in Wichita. The topic for this morning...
What Will $100 Million Buy You?
When $100 million is being spent on the governor and senate campaigns in their state, Michiganders might want to sit up and take notice.
The Monday Morning Brass Spittoon: Roundtable on The Synod on the...
The idea of the family has, since our inception, been one Porchers are particularly keen to defend. The family is a natural, integral, and...
News from Nowhere
Providence, RI
There are in these recent days at least three matters of great importance confronting my beloved land, The Assimilated Provinces of Megalomerica. They...
The Loss of a Culture of Personhood and the End of...
Philadelphia, PA
The idea and practice of limited government begins with Christianity. Pagan antiquity could not imagine such a thing, because there was no distinction...
Seeing Our (Non-Cosmopolitan) Selves
Some years ago, some of the folks behind F5, an alternative weekly newspaper here in Wichita, started a different (and, as it turned out,...
What Would the Father of Nationalism Say About Scottish Independence?
On Thursday, voters in Scotland will go to the polls and either choose "Yes," meaning that they want Scotland to become an independent state,...
Why I Won’t Participate in the Ice-Bucket Challenge
Holland, MI
I can’t say I’m overly conversant with the history of charitable giving in America, but I can’t recall something taking off quite like...
The Limits of the Language of Limits
Holland, MI
Over at the Postmodern Conservative, Peter Lawler has been writing quite a bit about Robin Williams, and specifically the movie Dead Poets Society (which,...