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]

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Front Porch Republic

Type of site	Blog
URL	http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/
Launched	2009
Current status	Active

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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]

As of December 2014^[update], the staff running the website were:^[5]