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Wendell Berry
What You Need to Know About…
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A Symposium of Popular Songs
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2025
Fairy Tale or Friday?
August 15, 2025
A weary, hungry child is walking through the forest, the emerald-green hues of the dense foliage gleaming shyly in the…
A TikToker In Search of America’s Third Places
August 14, 2025
Encouraged, not only by the burgeoning online-use of Oldenburg’s term "third place," but by a young person’s desire to engage…
Reflections on Blue Zones: Community is Not a Tool for Longevity
August 13, 2025
Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.
Why Voluntary Charity Is Not Optional: A Reflection on Rights and Duties
August 12, 2025
Some good things can only exist at the person-to-person level. To institutionalize them drains them of their moral power.
An Urban History of Prosperity’s Menace, and Those Who Sought (and Still Seek) to Tame It
August 11, 2025
Rather than focusing on an abundance of produced goods, focus on an abundance of productive land; rather than building an…
Terrestrial Otherness: Songs About Insects
August 11, 2025
In conjunction with my recent FPR article “Terrestrial Otherness,” this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening…
Don’t Die, Bad Neighbors, and Unions
August 9, 2025
Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.
A Second Streak: A Lightning Bottling Facility?
August 8, 2025
We knew last year’s streak was something special, and now we know it may have been the start of something.
A Dress Code for Democracy
August 7, 2025
How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.
My Typewriter
August 6, 2025
I distinctly remember on Christmas morning ...
A World Written: A Response to Wendell Berry’s “In Defense of Literacy”
August 5, 2025
Literacy anchors us to our surroundings and our heritage. It acquaints us with the particulars and holds us in the…
Old Models
August 4, 2025
Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend.
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