Playing With Turtles
Spring Arbor, MI
(Editor's note: Like any real front porch, FPR seeks to be a place where children are valued and welcome. Much of what...
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,...
A Little Home Cooking
Richmond, VA
I do not think it outrageous, every now and then, to despair for the future of cooking in this country. Not all the...
Marginalizing Care: What Happens when Healthcare and Education become Industries
Spring Arbor, MI
In our age of austerity and cost-cutting, the two industries currently under the microscope are healthcare and education. The gains in productivity...
What, Then, Are We Fighting For?
Owen Sound, ONT
While in Italy last month, I learned that my nation was under attack.
On waking, I found myself being told by Wolf Blitzer,...
The Polls of Nowhere
Nowhere, America
Today, the subjects of the Assimilated Provinces of Megalomerica will go to the polls to vote. It's mostly a formality, since the polls...
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...
Social Media Request
Most of us who post here are, to say the least, neither conversant with nor adept at social media. I discovered this summer, however,...
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...
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...