Merry Christmas
Holland MI
Today, Christians will celebrate the birth of Christ. Commenters on these pages have in the past noted some tensions between the Porch’s localist...
When Nothing But A Local Newspaper Will Do
Recently the city council in my hometown decided we desperately needed a courthouse. Mind you, my hometown is not the state capital. It's not even the...
The Monday Morning Brass Spittoon: Roundtable on Immigration
Our panel discusses immigration policy from a localist perspective.
The Bombadil Option
Manchester, CT
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom,...
Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch
Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
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.
Patriotism in Little
Louisville, Kentucky. One of the things I found on moving home to Kentucky 22 years ago is that our love of country is a...
Smitten With The Mitten: Beer in SW Michigan
Holland, MI
Most “beer ranking lists” have Michigan somewhere in the top 5 of best beer states. I don’t need a list to tell me...