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 […]
Category Archives: Culture
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 […]
Confessions of Chuck Marohn
The founder of Strong Towns joins John for a discussion of traffic and his latest book Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Listen to the podcast here.
Among the Integralists
John reviews Common Good Constitutionalism, Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule’s vision of a mighty leader bound by only the loose cords of a constitution, here at Front Porch Republic.
Presidential Principles
On George Washington’s Birthday, John looks at some of the lesser lights to lead and one future president who drew a line. Here, on the Porch.
Ohio River Blues
Author Will Hoyt takes a seat on the porch alongside the microphone inside the Brass Spittoon. John and Will discuss Hoyt’s new book The Seven Ranges: Ground Zero for the […]
Bless Joe Biden
Cursing a person strikes not at flawed policies or poor decisions but at the image of God. The rise of coded and not-so-coded cursing of the President of the United […]
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