Front Porch Republic is a localist and communitarian American blog where various contributors – known as 'porchers' – emphasize the importance of concepts such as community, place, decentralism, and conservation. Front Porch Republic publishes books under the name Front Porch Republic Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock.[1] It also sponsors an annual conference and, beginning in 2019, publishes the journal Local Culture.[2]
Ideology
Porchers have myriad opinions, but generally agree that centralization, atomization, and disregard for limits represent obstacles to human flourishing.[3]
Damon Linker describes Front Porch Republic in The Week:
- 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.[4]
Staff
As of December 2014[update], the staff running the website were:[5]
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Editor-in-Chief |
Senior Editors
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| Mark Mitchell |
Jeffrey Bilbro |
Jeremy Beer
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Katherine Dalton
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Patrick Deneen
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James Matthew Wilson
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Jason Peters
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Jeffrey Polet
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