The Stump

Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the State that was motivated by progressive commitments against the more local, parochial, and particular.

In my first essay here at Front Porch Republic, I wrote about the idea that creation-friendly agriculture is not about going back to old...

For our elites, democratic values and grand political projects go hand in hand.  Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the importance of democracy in adjudicating...

What Americans Want in Cities What makes a good city? I’ve been thinking a lot about this. What makes for a city people are happy...

"…this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and...

Precisely because it is limitless, space is the best place to test the limits of our courage and abilities.

I am in love with my neighborhood because I am in love with the people, how resilient and complicated they are, and how they teach me how wrong I have been about the world. They have proven to me what Jesus said in his most famous sermon, the one on the mount: “blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God.”

When we stop trying to be everywhere at once, we have enough time for the meaningful things.

I've been a fan of Bill McKibben's writings for close to 30 years. That doesn't mean I've agreed with, or even enjoyed,...

In such times, a centripetal lurch is what we desperately need.