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If Rush Limbaugh hates it, it's probably a good idea: When Dan Price said last week that he would cut his own pay and profits to make it possible to…

Hillary Clinton's Chipotle order: Hillary Clinton, fighter of children A bizarre and perverse paragraph in the New York Times: Traveling this fascinating and contradictory land today, one must acknowledge a…

The story is pretty much the same as before: you have children that are placed in a situation which many people would consider less than ideal, a situation which--as it…

Police are investigating a sighting of an alligator in the Monongahela River Archaeologists defy ISIS by finding new artifacts in Iraq Earth Island Journal interviews Wendell Berry: I've already explained…

On James Webb, novelist-politician.

Last spring I posted a piece on dandelions, after I had been struck by the preponderance of death-dealing chemicals in the ‘lawn and garden' section at the local big box store.…

We describe the most fundamental principles of American politics in terms of “rights.” According to the Declaration of Independence, which constitutes the philosophical foundation of American politics, it is “self-evident”…

There’s a recent piece in The New Yorker on the new Amazon Dash Button. For those who don’t know, the Dash Button is a small button you place in your…

If you come across articles I should include in this weekly round-up, email me at bloom.jordan[at]gmail[dot]com or tweet me here. The City of Detroit is pettifogging one of the best…

I’ve caught a lot of lucky breaks (or unmerited graces) in my life. For instance, I had two superb editors at Henry Holt, which in 2003 published Dispatches from the…

Matthew Crawford, about whom we have talked a good deal before here at Front Porch Republic, is back with a new book. Like so many other wise observers of our…

You may have noticed that Localist Roundup—FPR’s bi-weekly short post collecting articles of interest from across the internet—has vanished in recent weeks. This post is a continuation of that series,…

“In the first place, thanks to those who work it, the land bears not only the means for people to live, but also bears the means for them to live…

Please join us for a Family in America Capitol Hill Symposium, cosponsored with the Front Porch Republic, a panel discussion of the topic: “Rediscovering the Home Economy” Friday, March 27,…

I have a long piece up at TheDC, more words than you probably wanted to read on the New Republic's cover story on Pope Francis, but it touches on certain…

I have never thought much about the death of trees. Until today. I have thought about the death of farm animals, since I kill with my own hands the pigs…

“Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture storybooks. … How am I to sing your praise,…

The mayor of Ithaca NY seems to have a good understanding of how to move cities in the right sorts of directions.

If it's your thing -- and it's certainly not everybody's thing -- it's not a bad time to be an apocalypticist. A few weeks ago, Pope Francis once again implored…

“Again, one time Sophocles, who was Pericles’ fellow-commissioner in the generalship, was going on board with him, and praised the beauty of a youth they met with on the way…

From Reason, the excellent Jesse Walker locates American Sniper within a semi-nativist (if sometimes anti-native) American antiwar tradition. For what it's worth, I found it a powerful film, and not…

"You are dust, and to dust you will return." Genesis Some images are striking reminders of death. There are few like seeing your name etched on a gravestone. In my case it…

“But among barbarians no distinction is made between women and slaves…” Aristotle, Politics Barbarians can be accused of a number of things, but presumably they cannot be accused of considering…

“For the begetter is the ruler by reason of love and age…” Aristotle, Politics Perhaps we do not normally think of parents as rulers. Aristotle did. He seems to think…