3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1403+ words) is the Very Best Artificial Intelligence for All Pain Psychic and Bodily! Say Goodbye to the Burden of the Free Exercise of the Moral Sense! Say Goodbye to the Cumbersome Messiness of Democracy! Say Goodbye to the Vicious Stress of…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (203+ words) “Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women.” Sarah Reardon praises Willa’ Cather’s heroines, arguing that her “prairie women echo the book of Proverbs, wherein Wisdom is portrayed as a generous woman who presides over a feast, and the ideal woman is praised for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (359+ words) When you’re trying to cross the road and a homeless person is loitering at the crosswalk, what do you do? Do you speed up — going as fast as you can without breaking into an all-out sprint? Do you decide to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1165+ words) Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (635+ words) My Aunt Kathy died recently. She was 79. Affectionately known by her grandchildren as “Lulu,” I knew Katherine Walbert Walker, of Oklahoma City, only as “Aunt Kathy.” Although we only saw each other a few times a year, I can’t remember…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (864+ words) Tessa Carman: Leah, you spoke recently at a Front Porch Republic conference on “The Gift of Finitude.” Can you explain briefly how we should see being finite, being limited, as a gift, rather than, say, a curse? Leah Libresco Sargeant:…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1313+ words) Front Porch Republic On Warren Farha, Cultural Renewal, and the (Too Few) Bookish Places Where They Happen Recently Warren Farha—a devout Orthodox Christian, a soft-spoken descendant of Lebanese immigrants and merchants, a lifelong Wichitan, and, most relevantly, the founder…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (753+ words) The backdrop of Nisbet’s contemplation of the social philosophers is the kinship community. All of the earliest human communities were based upon kin relations and ruled by tradition, as interpreted by the elders. But this form of community did not…...

6+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (464+ words) As we commemorate our nation’s 250th anniversary this year, it is worth remembering (and also celebrating) the fact that America’s victory in the Revolution, brought about in great part by soldiers who excelled at hunting for game in wooded terrain, was…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago   (152+ words) “’No controlling legal authority’ Goes to War.” Tim Carney makes the good-yet-doomed case for congress to claw back power from the executive branch: “Congress, not Trump, rightfully has the power to enter the U.S. into a foreign war. Congress,…...