Will Hoyt

The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of Ward Republics

Thomas_Jefferson_by_Mather_Brown June 14, 2012

Thomas Jefferson’s agrarianism has long been vulnerable to attack by unsympathetic critics. Given that Jefferson ultimately banks on virtue rather than folly, this is of course to be expected; but the agrarian part to his vision is also vulnerable on…

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Why We Consent to the Wholesale Destruction of Good Land

cadiz strip mining June 4, 2012

Harrison County, Ohio.…
After I first moved to Harrison County, my smaller children used to beg that we drive home after excursions via a little-used road that passes through a contour mine. They liked to be scared by abandoned equipment

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