Front Porch Republic

Front Porch Republic
Web address http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/
Type of site
Blog
Launched 2009
Current status Active

Front Porch Republic is a localist American blog where various contributors emphasize the importance of concepts such as limits and community. These contributors—known as 'porchers'—have diverse opinions, but generally agree that centralization, atomization, and disregard for limits represent obstacles to human flourishing.[1]

Damon Linker at The Week describes Front Porch Republic:

Unlike the leaders of the mainstream conservative movement, Patrick Deneen, Mark T. Mitchell, Russell Arben Fox, Jeremy Beer, and the other "Porchers" have little interest in engaging with inside-the-Beltway power politics. Instead, they prefer to act as gadflies, denouncing the imperial ethos and influence-peddling that dominates Washington, as well as the boundless greed that drives would-be Masters of the Universe from around the country to seek their fortunes on Wall Street and in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.[2]

Current Staff

Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Newsletter Editor Senior Editors
Jeffrey Polet J. Arthur Bloom Ashley Trim Jeremy Beer
Katherine Dalton
Jason Peters
Mark T. Mitchell

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References

  1. About, at Front Porch Republic; retrieved 12 December 2014
  2. The new anti-urban ideology of ruralism, at The Week; by Damon Linker; published 19 April 2013; retrieved 12 December 2014
  3. Who We Are, at Front Porch Republic; retrieved 12 December 2014

External Links

Front Porch Republic Official Website

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