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"Even in fallen earthly terms, we might think of paradise as a place where many generations are born, grow up, live, and die, the physical surroundings becoming saturated with the family’s history and culture, the capital of which grows and deepens like the soil there."

Reid Makowsky makes a humble case for orchards: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/living…

Not only do intergenerational friendships like this matter to the kid and the adult, but they matter to the kid's parents, who need other trustworthy adults to help mentor their teens, especially. What a gift.

Jacob Adkins writes on inter-generational friendship: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/breakf…

Cameron McCallister reflects on the church and the paradox of the global village: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/why-th…

In Pushkin’s life, the influence of the Decembrist circles to which he gravitated shaped his vocabulary with terms defining unfreedom and despotism. They formed his language of resistance. But he himself formed the vocabulary of his personal sensations from life in exile.

Ilya Ganpantsura reflects on the legacy of Pushkin, Russia's first poet: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/the-lo…

Eréndira Ramírez-Ortega writes on churches' attitudes towards infants: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/the-pa…

In which I recommend essays by @estice, @sethwieck, @StevenEKnepper, @bonniekristian, @NadyaWilliams81, @opinion_joe, @ianharber, @mckaycoppins, and others.

In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about form, fraud, and suckers. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/form-f…

“Despite what Silicon Valley marketing messages insist, history is not always a steady march toward progress, and not every new thing is an improvement on the old.”

Tell me what you love about your small town. My latest in @FrontPorchRepub. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/the-gl…

Robert Thornett writes on Starbucks' push emergence in China: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/starbu…

K.E. Colombini writes on the merits of small towns: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/the-gl…

Eric Malczewski discusses Yellowstone and the nature of place: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/when-y…

Evan Patrohay reflects on co-creation in the technocratic age: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/all-th…

Beautiful reflections @FrontPorchRepub today. We "want either a flawless answer or permission to disengage."

Brandon McNeice revisits A River Runs Through It, 50 years after its publication: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/haunte…

In which I recommend essays by @SohrabAhmari, @TPCarney, @Zheschool, @estice, and others.

In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about war, gratitude, and play. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/gratit…