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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 11/26/25 | ![]() Russell Moore on how Wendell Berry Made the Cover of CT✨ | Wendell BerryChristianity Today+4 | Russell Moore | Christianity TodayFPR Bookshop+2 | — | Wendell BerryChristianity Today+5 | — | 54m 07s | |
| 9/22/25 | ![]() Bill McKibben with Sunshine on his Shoulder✨ | environmentactivism+3 | Bill McKibben | The End of NatureSolar SunDay+2 | — | Bill McKibbenWendell Berry+3 | — | 58m 56s | |
| 4/12/25 | ![]() Marvin Olasky on the Press, Presidents, and Pivots✨ | journalismconservative politics+4 | Marvin Olasky | World magazineChristianity Today+3 | — | Marvin OlaskyWorld magazine+5 | — | 1h 08m 21s | |
| 12/17/24 | ![]() Tri Robinson Looks Back in Thanks✨ | homesteadingspiritual adventure+4 | Tri Robinson | PBSPBS World | CaliforniaIdaho+1 | Tri Robinsonhomesteading+6 | — | 1h 11m 18s | |
| 10/21/24 | ![]() Jeff Bilbro's Convivial Quest✨ | localismtrad wives+5 | Jeff Bilbro | FPRWords for Conviviality | — | localismtrad wives+7 | — | 43m 43s | |
| 9/17/24 | ![]() Yuval Levin on Our Constitution✨ | Constitutionunity+5 | Yuval Levin | AEIAmerican Covenant | — | Constitutionunity+6 | — | 53m 44s | |
| 5/6/24 | ![]() Ghost Stories with Nancy French✨ | ghostwritingpersonal narrative+3 | Nancy French | Ghosted: An American Life | — | ghostwriterTennessee+4 | — | 44m 35s | |
| 3/26/24 | ![]() Family Time with Timothy Carney✨ | parentingcultural challenges+4 | Timothy Carney | AEIFamily Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be | Fishtown | raising kidscultural issues+5 | — | 1h 01m 07s | |
| 1/29/24 | ![]() Living Outside the Machine✨ | resistancerestoration+3 | Ashley ColbyBill Kauffman | Rizoma Field SchoolDoomer Optimism: Life Adjacent to the Machine+1 | WisconsinAlaska+1 | resistancelocalism+7 | — | 44m 30s | |
| 1/22/24 | ![]() Brian Miller on Kayaking with Lambs✨ | farmingTennessee+4 | Brian Miller | FPRKayaking with Lambs | — | farmingTennessee+5 | — | 30m 31s | |
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| 1/17/24 | ![]() Humane Politics | Adam Smith, a philosopher at the University of Dubuque, counterattacks the disenchanted War on Suffering. FPR President Mark Mitchell goes biblical to bring down a heightened politics of insanity. Brass Spittoon podcaster John Murdock looks at a key architect of religious politics and wonders what might happen if his blueprints were followed. Gerald Ford groupie and FPR perfect attendance award winner Jeff Polet opens by reflecting on political goats. Highlights Jeff Polet: Introduction 1:30 Statistical sirens 3:00 Humane oxymorons 5:15 Dirty politics 6:15 Animal farm 9:45 Oh yeah, the intros! Adam Smith: “The Politics of Reenchantment” 10:15 A reading from St. Aldo’s almanac 11:45 Frontlines in the War on Suffering 20:00 Enchanting politics with fairies and green fire 24:00 Institutionalizing flatness 31:00 Supernaturally small Mark Mitchell: “Politics in Babel” 33:00 Towers trump? 38:00 Name callers 42:00 Crashing symbols 46:00 Abraham skips the bricks 47:15 Hope in failure John Murdock: “Back to the Future of the Religious Right” 51:45 “The Poll” and holy holes 57:00 Franciscan biography 62:00 White and wrongs 66:00 The limits of integrity 69:00 Polyface politics and ravines made for walking Resources Speaker bios and conference videos FPR Books and bookshop Conference co-sponsor Plough Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music | 1h 13m 51s | ||||||
| 1/8/24 | ![]() Human Responses to Technology | Jeff Bilbro, FPR’s super-beaver EIC and Grove City College professor, looks to ancient mythology to assess modern technology and fiction of the future. Cassandra Nelson of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is stuck in the middle, a bit like AI itself. Author, teacher, and mother Tessa Carman looks for life in abundance in Minnesota and Maryland. Writer and Berry Center board member Kate Dalton Boyer introduces the speakers. Highlights 1:00 Kate kicks things off Jeff Bilbro: “Where Now Are Wayland’s Bones?” 3:30 Kingsnorth and Norse smith explained 12:30 Tempted by ease and justice 15:00 AI amigos for the autonomous 19:00 Computerized convocations 22:00 Wise touch Cassandra Nelson: “Median Humans and the Life That Really is Life” 26:00 Harboring a secret subtitle 29:15 A hallucinating average machine 34:30 M.A.D. results 41:00 Fancy tooters over computers 45:00 Against photocopies Tessa Carman: “The Joy of Tech Resistance” 46:30 FPR Match Game 48:00 Manifestos and better tools 51:00 You don’t have to! 55:00 Postman knocks, people dance 63:00 Better names and best practices Resources Speaker bios and conference videos Interview with Jeanne Schindler on Postman Pledge FPR Books and bookshop Conference co-sponsor Plough Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music | 1h 08m 59s | ||||||
| 1/6/24 | ![]() Imagining Life Beyond the Machine: Eric Miller and Jason Peters | Eric Miller, biographer of Christopher Lasch and a professor at Geneva College, plus longtime porcher Jason Peters of Hillsdale College address the role of imagination in shaping our shared reality. Matt Stewart, an associate editor of the FPR website, introduces this duo that has impacted his life in important ways. Highlights 1:00 Matt Stewart, teacher’s pet/pest and herb connoisseur Eric Miller: “The Instructed Imagination” 6:00 Hannah Coulter v. Mark Heard 13:30 Collegiate conscience and imagination 16:00 Augustine’s commonweal 20:00 O’Connor’s name calling 23:00 Walker and Wendell looking for hope Jason Peters: “Imagination: Not Whimsical but Fatal” 27:45 Last year’s speech and this year’s joke 29:30 The propositions begin 35:00 Stoves and stand-up 38:00 Rainbows on the run 43:00 Unified Kauffman and computerized thinking 50:00 Fatalities and old farts Resources Speaker bios and conference videos FPR Books and bookshop Conference co-sponsor Plough Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for our theme music | 57m 06s | ||||||
| 11/12/23 | ![]() Paul Kingsnorth: Blizzard of the World | Paul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin. With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic social critic Malcolm Muggeridge, and the prophetic French-Egyptian Sufi Rene Guenon, the unexpectedly Irish Orthodox Kingsnorth takes listeners on a tour of techno-mirages, holy wells, and green deserts in a search for culture-seeding saints. Highlights 2:00 Jeff introduces Paul 3:30 Paul introduces his thrift shop shirt 7:30 The disquiet of machine things 12:30 Surface debates and the depths beneath 19:00 Mumford and some on the suicide of the West 25:00 Anti-culture and real culture-making 29:00 Who is on the throne? (Or Paul as a sociological Bill Bright) 35:00 Transhumanist candor 38:00 Signs of light and darkness with Guenon and Spengler 47:00 A reluctant convert 50:00 Leaving the broken center for the margins 60:00 Short on saints Resources Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR On "AI Demonic" at Touchstone “The Cross and the Machine” at First Things Conference videos Conference co-sponsor Plough Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 1h 03m 14s | ||||||
| 11/11/23 | ![]() Paul Kingsnorth’s Opening Prayer | Paul Kingsnorth, the keynote speaker at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin, begins things with a bonus talk on the power of prayer in a desecrated western world. Highlights 1:15 Mark Mitchell’s welcome 4:00 Paul flies in 5:30 A long list of labels 7:30 Roots and power 8:15 My neighbor Vinny (and his dying cousins) 12:30 Centering work 14:00 Citizen culture 19:00 Two trinities 23:00 Our like will not be here again 24:30 Candles to blow 37:30 The still point in the turning world 30:00 An Orthodox Texan’s sermon 32:45 Closing hymn Resources Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR “The Cross and the Machine” Conference videos Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 34m 11s | ||||||
| 9/24/23 | ![]() Bill Kauffman in Conversation | Bill Kauffman, author of multiple books including Poetry Night at the Ballpark and long the closing speaker at FPR conferences, talks about the origins of Front Porch Republic and his unique life of letters. Host: John Murdock Guest: Bill Kauffman Highlights 1:30 Defending the homeland 2:30 The Closer 7:45 Muckdog memories 12:15 Perfectly sized 15:00 First Man and Senate staffer 18:00 Morning drinks and Mormon journeys 22:15 Life on the fringe 24:00 Not a murderer 26:15 Jimmie Foxx found dead 29:30 Paying the bills 31:30 A Barber in the House 34:30 Bucket listless 36:00 See you in Madison, but I digress Resources Bill’s work at FPR, TAC, and The Spectator Poetry Night at the Ballpark The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable Liberty Fund Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 38m 05s | ||||||
| 2/2/23 | ![]() After Virtual: Civic Life | The After Virtual conference podcast series closes with a focus on civics and cemeteries. Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism, talks on, well, plutocrats and socialism (plus the importance of property ownership to maintaining the republic). Rachel Ferguson, author of Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, highlights the historic role of roads in undermining minority communities and current efforts at neighborhood stabilization. Regular conference closer Bill Kauffman regales the crowd with tales from the crypts of Batavia. Speakers: Mark Mitchell, Rachel Ferguson, and Bill Kauffman Highlights 2:30 Mark Mitchell — Why Property Matters 3:15 FPR, born in apocalypse 9:00 Plutocrats and socialists, a love story 19:30 What would the Founders do? 22:15 Rachel Ferguson — What’s Wrong with the Roads? 23:30 Housing many things in the Black Church 26:30 Eugenics, red lines, and roads 30:00 Cars explained, Ike appalled 38:00 Neighborhood Stabilization (and its All-Stars) 46:30 “Paid to talk to me” v. the Jesus people 50:00 Bill Kauffman —The View from the Cemetery 51:00 Grave matters with Walt Whitman 54:00 Masons and monuments 58:30 Wings are overrated 1:00 Barry Goldwater and friends 1:04 Ontologically speaking 1:07 Baseball R.I.P. Resources Speaker bios Conference videos Save the (new!) date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 21, 2023) Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents | 1h 14m 11s | ||||||
| 1/12/23 | ![]() After Virtual: Health | The penultimate session from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods addresses health. Philosopher Adam Smith from the University of Dubuque and medical doctor Brian Volck, author of Attending Others: A Doctor’s Education in Bodies and Words, take on the medical/industrial complex (with assists from Alasdair MacIntyre and Wendell Berry). Speakers: Adam Smith and Brian Volck Highlights 2:15 Adam Smith—Medicine After Virtue 3:15 Medicine in the New Dark Ages 5:00 Out of practice 11:30 The medicalization of everything 16:00 Infected with emotivism 20:00 Curing the disease of freedom in 1851 26:00 De-medicalizing birth, death, and more 29:00 Brian Volck — Hospitality, Responsibility, and Presence: Practicing Medicine as if Bodies Actually Mattered 31:00 Bad metaphors and good definitions 33:00 The trouble with trolleys and telemedicine 41:00 Patients in the flesh 45:00 Paleo-Benedictine hospitality 48:15 Stewarding stethoscopes 51:30 Q & A Resources Speaker bios Conference videos Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents | 1h 06m 16s | ||||||
| 12/20/22 | ![]() After Virtual: Chris Arnade | Chris Arnade, the keynote speaker at the After Virtual conference, has traded global finance for skid row photography. Chris discusses his journey from Wall Street board rooms to a booth at McDonald’s and the associated rejection of careerism and self-definition. Speaker: Chris Arnade—An Address in the Universe of Meaning Highlights 3:00 Prayer time around the world 6:45 The liberal emancipation project (of destruction) 10:30 Transcendent values first seen in a traffic jam 16:00 “Everything we believed was wrong” 27:00 Place and the giant sucking sound of NAFTA 30:00 Family ties 32:00 The “meaning” address and its replacement Resources Speaker bios Conference videos Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 21, 2023) Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America The Substack home of a traveling man An NPR story on Chris Arnade Arnade’s work at The Guardian and The Atlantic Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents | 40m 04s | ||||||
| 11/30/22 | ![]() After Virtual: Education | The second episode from the FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods looks at education. Jeff Polet discusses walking away from Hope. Angel Adams Parham talks about the elementary power of a rapping Homer. Jason Peters goes back to the future of the educational machine. Speakers: Jeff Polet, Angel Adams Parham, and Jason Peters Highlights 1:15 Jeff Polet—Why I Left the Academy 2:00 The news from Nineveh 5:30 Signs of declines 8:30 Searching for a pony 16:30 Jargon, gymnasts, adjudications, and generals 23:15 Gerald Ford comes calling 25:00 Angel Adams Parham—Education for Flourishing: K-16 and Beyond 26:30 Cultural canons and tug-of-war 28:15 Classics and community 32:30 Taking creative license with the gods 34:00 Disturbing images of beauty 40:00 Rapping Homer, Reading Frederick Douglas, and Rediscovering Sundiata 45:00 Resources for Learning 47:00 Jason Peters—The Sin Against the Body: For This They Wept Not 48:30 March madness and the managerial class 51:45 Phone sex prophecy 55:00 Would not a storm by any other name smell just the same 58:00 Even better than the real thing? 64:00 1909 all over again 70:00 Truth buoys up Resources Speaker bios Conference videos Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents | 1h 13m 29s | ||||||
| 11/14/22 | ![]() After Virtual: The Church | For the first of our episodes from September’s FPR conference After Virtual: The Art of Recovering Lost Goods, we go to church. Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman share thoughts on technology and embodied worship in a time of pandemic. Speakers: Carl Trueman, Gregory Hogg, and Charlie Cotherman Highlights 1:15 Carl Trueman 3:00 Is it all Protestantism’s fault? 4:00 How to take over an empire 6:15 Reformations and technology 11:00 Overlooked revolutionary sausages 13:45 Our age of social acceleration 16:45 A challenge to holy time 19:00 A challenge to community 20:00 Gregory Hogg 20:15 Christians and plagues 23:00 Masks and noble lies 26:00 Vaccines and Canadians 28:00 Virtual worship? 30:00 Body and Church 31:30 Charlie Cotherman 32:00 Elisha’s physical engagement 35:00 Resurrection, proximity, and presence 39:00 Community and COVID tech 42:30 To the statistics 46:00 Invasive species and unholy shortcuts Resources Speaker bios Conference videos Save the date: 2023 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (October 7, 2023) Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for his musical talents | 51m 10s | ||||||
| 10/26/22 | ![]() Mark Mitchell on Plutocratic Socialism | Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class and President of Front Porch Republic, joins the podcast. Mitchell and Murdock discuss the origins of FPR and the importance of widely-held productive private property in an era when the super rich and socialists have formed an odd partnership. Host: John Murdock Guest: Mark Mitchell Highlights 1:30 Mark Mitchell, happy at home chopping wood 5:00 FPR, the early days 9:00 How not to change the world 12:00 The messy remainder of reality 13:00 From Richard Weaver to “You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll be Happy” 19:30 Gnostic temptations v. the Incarnation 23:00 The odd couple: plutocracy and socialism 31:30 The not so odd couple: productive property and democratic citizenship 36:00 The myth of maximal emancipation 39:00 Tocqueville’s aristocratic fears 45:00 Prospects for property in a time of chronic crisis 52:45 Friendly pushback on COVID and climate (with a cameo by Roger Scruton) 60:00 If they are for it, we’re against it 64:00 Loving our neighbor to counter a nationalized focus Resources Buy the book Mitchell’s bio at FPR An excerpt from Plutocratic Socialism Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 1h 08m 12s | ||||||
| 8/23/22 | ![]() Matt Stewart on Wallace Stegner | Matthew Stewart, author of The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, sits down (literally) with host John Murdock to discuss Stegner’s complicated relationship with the American West. A mobile youth left Stegner yearning for deeper roots. In the 1940s, he landed in the hills surrounding San Francisco Bay, an area soon set for expansive growth. Stegner’s interplay with the region and his own personal history led to the Pulitzer Prize winning Angle of Repose, a National Book Award for The Spectator Bird, and his masterful final work Crossing to Safety. Stewart, who received his Ph.D. in history from Syracuse, digs deeply into Stegner’s prose, places, and personal archives to document this quest for home. Host: John Murdock Guest: Matthew Stewart Highlights 2:00 Stewart, man of Geneva and Idaho 5:00 Wallace Stegner 101 7:00 “Geography of hope” and other famous phrases 7:45 A sharp dressed man in the eyes of his student, Wendell Berry 9:30 Ranking the novels 11:30 Mary Hallock Foote controversy 14:00 Life story of a Silicon Valley pioneer 16:45 Family’s outlaw life and death 18:30 California here he comes 19:45 Utopian suburban dreams 22:15 Searching for substance in a “formless non-community” 26:00 Anguished questions of the 1960s 30:15 Fan mail from frustrated parents 33:00 Stuck in Vermont 36:00 Edward Abbey sets the scene 38:00 Finding beauty in the places we know Resources Buy the book Stewart’s bio at FPR Stegner’s Wilderness Letter Mary Hallock Foote matter still controversial in 2022 A piece on Stegner and his students Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 39m 37s | ||||||
| 7/1/22 | ![]() Katharine Hayhoe Talks Climate Change | Katharine Hayhoe is a professor at Texas Tech and the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy. Her most recent book is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Dr. Hayhoe, a Christian, swings by the Porch to discuss faith and science; effective communication on controversial topics; and the role of disinformation in our discussions about global warming. She also shares on her personal encounters with President Barak Obama and Speaker Newt Gingrich, plus gives her opinion on the East Anglia email disclosure and its impact on climate scientists. A shorter written version of the podcast is available on the Plough website. Host: John Murdock Guest: Katharine Hayhoe Highlights 1:30 A pine forest smells like home 2:45 The gendered physics of a scientific career 5:45 Friction from the fellow faithful 10:15 Working with Gingrich, Obama, and Trump 15:30 Pelosi and Gingrich were on the couch. So, what went wrong? 20:45 COVID, climate, and the Church of Facebook 24:30 Dr. Fauci, East Anglia emails, and arrogance 28:30 Tree rings, Skeptical Science, and the “trick” 33:30 Nit-picking on emails? 37:00 Al Gore enters the conversation 39:45 Rolling loaded weather dice 41:45 What communicates in a polarized time? 45:45 Dealing with the “dismissives” 49:00 Scriptural models for the overly skeptical 52:00 N.T. Wright and the end of the world as we know it? 55:00 Katharine’s vast media empire explained Resources Dr. Hayhoe’s website PBS Global Weirding series The latest book: Saving Us Skeptical Science Murdock on Skeptical Science and “hide the decline” Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home | 57m 21s | ||||||
| 5/10/22 | ![]() Chuck Marohn on the Human Errors of Traffic Engineering | Chuck Marohn, the founder of Strong Towns and author of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, discusses streets, roads, “stroads,” and the perils of the American traffic system. A trained engineer himself, Marohn once imbibed the discipline’s dominant dogmas. Today, he advocates for cities and towns where slower moving cars can get us where we want to go faster. Host: John Murdock Guest: Charles “Chuck” Marohn Highlights 1:15 A boy from Brainerd 3:45 Strong Towns explained 6:30 What’s an engineer good for? 8:45 Breaking through with talking bears 13:15 A need for speed 16:45 So, what’s a “STROAD”? 17:45 The futon of transportation 20:30 Walking to die in the land of Dr. Seuss 27:00 Philando Castile and traffic trolling cops 36:30 I-49, $700M, and the saints of Shreveport 45:30 Lightning Round with Elon Musk, destroyed stop lights, and more 50:00 Wrapping it up, early in the morning Resources Strong Towns website Chuck’s late-night video that goes viral Steve Martin the barber is here to help Allendale Strong fights I-49 | 51m 53s | ||||||
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