After Virtual
Groundhog Day marked the completion of the podcast series from the 2022 Front Porch Republic conference entitled After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods. You can listen to all […]
Category Archives: Culture
Last Day at the Abortion Clinic
John reflects on the fallen from abortion and his own time praying that the gears of death would stop. Here at First Things.
Mark Mitchell and Plutocracy on the Porch
At the Brass Spittoon podcast, John welcomes Front Porch Republic founder and President Mark Mitchell for a discussion of private property and its role in today’s urbanized ephemeral world. Listen […]
Pondering the Pigskin
John reflects on football and being on the losing side of a great upset. We may love our sports too much but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something lovable in […]
Remembering Apartheid Fondly on RAV
[Editor’s note: Below is a piece that got lost in the shuffle and never found a real home, but dedicated followers of this site may be interested. John has still […]
Wallace Stegner’s Way Home
At the Brass Spittoon podcast, John is joined by Matt Stewart, author of The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California. Stegner, a noted author focused on the […]
Biden’s Strange Trip from Roe to Dobbs
President Joe Biden used his bully pulpit to chastise the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade. When Roe was first announced, however, Biden was singing a very different tune. John […]
Katharine Hayhoe in Sight and Sound
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and one of the most widely heard voices taking the message to the masses. John recently talked with Katharine and the results are […]
Thought for Food
John contemplates The Last Pig, a film chronicling one farmer’s journey away from feeding the slaughterhouse, here on the Porch.
Live(?) from New York
Saturday Night Live used to be in it for laughs. Today, abortion is too sacred to be made the butt of any of their jokes. John looks at SNL from […]
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