Katherine Dalton

Katherine Dalton
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Katherine Dalton has worked as a magazine editor, freelance feature writer and book editor.  She started in journalism in college, working at The Yale Literary Magazine during most of its controversial few years as a national magazine of opinion based at Yale.  She then worked briefly at Harper's magazine in New York, and more extensively at Chronicles magazine in Illinois, where she was a contributing editor for many years.  She has has written for various publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the University Bookman, and was a contributor to Wendell Berry: Life and Work and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto.  She lives in her native Kentucky.

Recent Essays

The Berry Center at Work

Mary Berry (Wendell's daughter, and an occasional contributor here) has founded The Berry Center to continue her family's work to buttress the economic well-being of small...

Paying and paying for college

Untangling the sticker price for an undergraduate degree.

California Splits

When a "boomer" hits the Pacific Ocean, how does he redefine starting anew? Here are some suggestions from the West Coast.

How We Saw Ourselves: circa 1800

I am reading through James Ronda's Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (first published in 1984) and was reminded of how we saw ourselves...

The Anti-multitasker, RIP

The Stanford professor who debunked the myth of effective multitasking, Clifford Nass, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on November 2. But he leaves...

A spook speaks–just in time for Halloween

For those readers at all interested in Angela Merkel's dismay, or the reach of our homeland spy agencies, here are a few pertinent quotes...

The Rhetoric of War Powers

I suppose we have the Constitution we deserve--but we could fight for the one we had.

Louisville’s Food Broker

Why is Louisville's unique Farm to Table program not being copied in other cities?  Here's a national story you can pass along to your...

Tonight, in Boston

Just a few hours ago Boston FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers held a press conference in that city to present two security camera films of...

Eating Local–Or Local Enough

If I earn ten pennies in heaven for being a local food supplier, do I get five for being regional?

Women at War

Women are now cleared for combat positions in the American armed forces, and for all the ladder-climbing that now allows. On January 24th, Defense...

What Women Voters Want

If this is feminism, then pass me the patriarchy, please.