Front Porch Republic » Patrick J. Deneen

Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the State that was motivat...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/08/the-perils-and-possibility-of-the-nation-for-the-future-of-conservatism/

South Bend, IN My students are know-nothings.  They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent.  But their minds are largely empty, devoid ...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2016/02/res-idiotica/

Every morning when I would shuffle to our refrigerator to lug out the gallon of milk for cereal, or after school when I’d stand in front of it wondering if there was anything inside to scrounge...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/11/post-antibiotic/

On Monday, November 11, I delivered the first “First Lecture” to students at the University of Notre Dame.  This series – modeled on the idea of the “Last Lecture” – is intended to i...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/11/first-lecture/

John Milbank has written a remarkable critique of gay marriage that points to the ways it will ultimately and immeasurably strengthen the modern liberal State.  The theologian who launched “Ra...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/05/biopolitical_tyranny/

The best thing to come out of Hollywood since….   well, maybe ever:  Ron Swanson’s Man Rules. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but #5 – “Grind it Out” – is an instant classic: We ha...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/05/ron-swansons-man-rules/

I’ve been sitting in an airport most of today, subject to the inescapable barrage of manufactured outrage that is CNN, and was offered this lifeline of sanity from a reader.  She was respondin...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/03/a-refreshing-bit-of-sanity/

This is a highly confused article on the turn, particularly among women, to forms of “new domesticity.”  Its author, Emily Matchar, appears eager to deny that there is anything good to bein...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2012/12/the-new-domesticity/

At about the same moment I was reading David Brooks’s third “Social Science Palooza,” which is a summary of some recent, interesting findings in the study of human behavior, I received in m...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2012/12/social-science-and-human-liberty/

From an address calling for a renewal of agricultural work by Pope Benedict in November, 2010: “To this end, it is essential to cultivate and spread a clear ethic that is up to the task of addr...

https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2012/12/benedict-xvi-porcher/