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Thoughts on Teaching Wendell Berry
...of thing. Bringing together the cultural Left and the corporatist Right creates some pretty bad juju. D. Stonehouse Just a comment about teaching Wendell Berry. I first entered Wendell's…
Wendell Berry Opts Out of the ‘Culture of Violence’
Our Only World: Ten Essays. By Wendell Berry. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015. In January of 2012, Wendell Berry delivered a speech at Georgetown College that explained his support for legalizing…
The Danger of Hope: Lana Del Rey, Stephen King, and Wendell Berry in the Days of COVID-19
...a conversation Berry had at Yale University. In preparation for Berry’s 2013 Chubb Fellow lecture, Jeffrey Brenzell, then head of Timothy Dwight College, asked Berry how he sustained a…
Patriotic Work: Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
Rockford, IL. Over a half century ago and in reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., a young Wendell Berry penned a very personal essay on race…
Love Is Its Own Justification: Wendell Berry and the Lure of Political Efficacy
Jackson, MI. In the latest issue of The Baffler, George Scialabba reviews the Library of America’s recent collections of Wendell Berry’s essays. It’s a perceptive and sympathetic review, but Scialabba ultimately parts…
Wendell Berry and the Great Economy
...Are they "agrarians" in anything like Berry's? John Médaille Michael, not a niggling point at all, but a common misconception about the physiocrats. On the agrarian scale, they were…
The Irony of a Wendell Berry NFT
...collection of Berry’s economic writings. Wendell Berry as an NFT Primarily, Wendell Berry assails the very speculative economy that NFTs represent and entrench. An economy based around reckless gambling…
Learning to Live a Second Life in Two Stories by John Berger and Wendell Berry
...books by Wendell Berry and roughly twenty by John Berger. (For those not familiar with Berger, he was an English novelist, art critic, and reputed Marxist who died in…
What Wendell Berry’s Brush Teaches Us About Capitalism, Community, and “Inevitability”
...in Berry’s home state which began in 1921, took new life–and, in Berry’s view, best performed its careful balancing act–under the New Deal’s Federal Tobacco Program beginning in 1941,…
Review of “The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry”
...6: The Third Landscape: Wendell Berry and American Conservation by Jason Peters Chapter 7: Wendell Berry and Democratic Self-Governance by Patrick J. Deneen Chapter 8: First They Came for…
Wendell Berry and the New Urbanism: Agrarian Remedies, Urban Prospects
...this point, Kunstler turns to Wendell Berry for a definition of community. “Most important, Wendell Berry writes, ‘“it must be generally loved and competently cared for by its people,…
Thinking About Wendell Berry’s Leftist Lament (and More)
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wendell Berry’s sprawling, uneven, brilliant, and sometimes frustrating The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice will likely not, I think,…
Hearing Wendell Berry
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS There are some folks here at Front Porch Republic who are well-acquainted with Wendell Berry. They’ve been to his home, stayed up…
Does Wendell Berry Have Rose-Colored Glasses?
Given the unpopular and uncompromising stands that Wendell Berry takes, it’s only natural that many readers fiercely disagree with him. Some of these disagreements are simply matters of preference.…
Wendell Berry Receives Humanities Medal
...But, what the hell, many congratulations to Mr. Berry. What an honor to enjoy. ddenton Yeah, and I'll bet Barrack Obama is an avid reader of Wendell Berry, too.…
Can You (or anyone) Put Wendell Berry’s Lightning in the Bottle of U.S. Higher Education?
Below is the text of a review for Orthodox Presbyterians — of all people — of Jack Baker and Jeff Bilbro’s new book on Wendell Berry (some words have…
Civilization, Escape, or Community: Revisiting Into the Wild with Wendell Berry
...all of us, especially in young people. One of my favorite meditations on these competing desires is Wendell Berry’s essay “Writer and Region,” which is essentially a commentary on…
“As I Know by Love”: Wendell Berry’s Another Day
Wendell Berry’s This Day collected all his Sabbath poems from 1979-2012, and now Another Day collects the subsequent eleven years of Sabbath poems. These are worthy continuations of one…
Stories of Healing and Wholeness: An Appreciative Engagement with Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole
...for even our enemies to listen and find sympathy with us. But if arguments don’t yield to the sharing of stories, then opponents will only become (at best) our…
Work and Prayer: The Brief Friendship of Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry
...of quiet.” Merton and Berry met, it seems, at least once—on December 10, 1967, exactly one year before Merton’s death. Wendell and his wife Tanya, poet Denise Levertov, the…
More of the Familiar in Wendell Berry’s How It Went
Johnson County, TN. Innovation is not intrinsically good and has probably never been on any list of Wendell Berry’s goals as an author of fiction. He has never chased…
Identity and Integration: A Whole Lot of Wendell Berry
Buffalo, NY. I can’t recall when I read Wendell Berry’s 1970 essay The Hidden Wound for the first time. But, as a white male from rural north Alabama, I…
Stop Talking about Wendell Berry on Twitter
...be true that we Tweet or Facebook about Wendell Berry from an iPhone. Fellow localists, these things ought not so to be. Seeing quotations from Wendell Berry and advertisements…
Larry McMurtry and Wendell Berry at the Dairy Queen
...for New Hampshire and Vermont, what Faulkner did for Mississippi and Steinbeck for the Salinas Valley, Wendell Berry is doing for his family corner of Kentucky.” I’d add simply:…
