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William Gilmore Simms’ claims about the decay of morals and the arts that results from the rise of scientism and decline of supernaturalism can be elaborated by reflecting on the insights of Flannery O’Connor and the Southern Agrarians.

Where does that leave us? With the difficult job of recovering the sturdy Jeffersonian virtues of the freeman—virtues of thrift, being rooted in one’s place, hard work, pride of ownership, the orderly use of time, fierce independence of spirit, self-sufficiency, charity towards one’s neighbor, a refusal to bend the knee to any master, membership in a communal identity, and a return to family economies that place a strong incentive on having children.

The election offers us false choices - again.

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.

If there’s one thing we have in higher education today it’s a superfluity of bluster.

Peace is a Jinn. It is that thing we are always in search of, but never enough to forget our accumulated envious resentments of those who are not like us.

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.