Annabelle Edamala: Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/old-mo…

Today we're running the first of the top three essays we received for our student essay contest. We had lots of excellent, thoughtful submissions.

FPR launches a new podcast this week: Join Michial Farmer as he leads listeners through a symposium of popular songs. This week the theme is Soft in the Middle: Songs About Middle Age. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/soft-i…

An important Conference hosted here by Front Porch Republic on work and leisure. frontporchrepublic.com/conference/202…

Kinley Bowers: Literacy anchors us to our surroundings and our heritage. It acquaints us with the particulars and holds us in the web of relations. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/a-worl…

Ada Brown: I have only ever owned one typewriter. My typewriter was given to me by my grandmother when I was in elementary school. She gave it to me for Christmas. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/my-typ…

Some students turn to ChatGPT, others pull out their great-grandmother's typewriter: frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/my-typ…

Brandon McNeice: Where much of modern education bends toward customization and consumer satisfaction, the uniform reminds us that education is not about tailoring reality to the individual. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/a-dres…

Elizabeth Stice: Benjamin Franklin captured an electric charge in a Leyden jar. We captured it in a classroom. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/a-seco…

In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about Don't Die, bad neighbors, and unions. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/dont-d…

In which I recommend pieces by Nic Rowan, Christopher Watkin, Piers Gelly, Elizabeth Stice, Tony Pipa, Brett McKay, Frannie Block, and others.

Russell Arben Fox: Rather than building an orientation around increasing supply, build an orientation around the collective use of that which has already been supplied—which for cities means the productive locality upon which one stands. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/an-urb…

Nathan Mayo: Some good things can only exist at the person-to-person level. To institutionalize them drains them of their moral power. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/why-vo…

"Indeed, a call for less government provision is not a call for a more selfish society but for a more generous one."

J.T. Edelblut: What do people find so appealing about specific behaviors by which they can take control of their health and fend off death? frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/reflec…

In today's piece, Frank Music reflects on the interplay between social media, third places, and the effort to be a part of a community. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/a-tikt…

Read my latest in Front Porch Republic frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/a-tikt…

Nadya Williams: What are bears for? Fairytales offer an answer that seems, on the surface, simple... frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/fairyt…

Absolutely charming. I relish Nadya Williams 's use of language!

In my latest Front Porch Republic, I have thoughts on bears--in real life and otherwise. Happy Friday, friends! frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/fairyt…