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From the Editor
It was the Summer of ’68
Child’s Play
Hoosiers at 40
Return of the Fire Horse
Shoeless Dan and the Telling of Old Stories
The End of Play and the Death of Culture
The Most Interesting People You’ve Never Heard Of: A Review of Bill Kauffman’s Upstaters: Poets, Pols, Prophets, and Bush-League Heroes of Upstate New York
Hey, Will!
Work as Privilege and Blessing, Hardship and Pleasure
All Work, All Play
An Albatross Around our Necks
The Work of Leisure
“A Hand of Random Cards,” “This Soul, Like Hair,” and “Aubade”
The Art of Being: St. Benedict, Josef Pieper, and the Kingdom of Ends
That Ye May Walk Honestly: A Review of Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard
Work as Conversation
The Sorry State of the College-Aged Male; Or, What the Heck Became of Marriageable Men?
Winter and Summer on Winged Elm Farm
How Will We Get the People Back?
“Brahms in Düsseldorf,” “Benjamin in Paris,” and “Updike in Ipswich”
A Son of Montana Makes a Place in Virginia
Time, Place, and the Kingdom of Heaven: The Farm Story that Actually Unfolded
“Around the Hearth” and “A Place Called Home”
Farming Here; or, Four Words to “Save the World”
Securing the Soil at the Wendell Berry Patch
In Uncertain Time I Dream of Flowers
Called Neither to Save Nor Resist Nor Make Better: Review of Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty
Civility, Insult, and Friendship in the Merit-Victim Sweepstakes
George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company & Conversation
Political Life Animated by Civility and Incivility
The Mannerlessness of Power and the Power of Manner
H.L. Menken on How to Make Sex Civil
“Heaviness of Fate, Lightness of Song” (poem)
G.K. Chesterton and the Pugnacious Pursuit of Truth
Regarding Civility
Cheek-By-Jowl Citizenship; or, What We Should Be Talking About
Hey, Padre!
A Surprising Friendship
Democracy without Temperance: John Lukacs and the Challenge of Populism
The Impressionist
John Lukacs, Localist
“Palo Duro Canyon Rima” and “Core Hole 112 on the Waddell Lease”
The Historian as Statesman: Lukacs on Churchill
The Historian as a Man of Letters
David James Duncan’s Wounded Healers
Hey, Bill!
An Education in Friendship
Place, Proximity, and Friendship: A Tribute
“The Difficulty of Talking about Color” and “Late Evening Walk”
Friendship: The Secret Appointment of Heaven
Waitin’ on a Friend
Friends in High Places
“Crows in the Pecan Tree”
Friendship and Memory in the Civil War Poems of Whitman and Melville
Ties that Bind, a Review of Properties of Blood
Involuntary Society, a Review of The Banshees of Inisherin
Truth North, a Review of North Country
Hey, David!
Mr. Ramos’s Iconic Fizz
Wishing it Could Always be So: Broussard Street Hospitality in South Louisiana
Until I Cross Water; or, Hot Boudin, Cold Coush-Coush
Eating Our Way Home in Kentucky
“To Michelle Elizabeth” and “Untitled”
Hippy Hippy Shake, Being a Short Dissertation on the Glories of the Cocktail
Two Cheers for Hunting
“Kite”
Where at Least a Few People Know Your Name
Putting a Stable Economy Under Good Farming: Our Home Place Meats and the Problem of Parity Pricing
Book Review of The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900
Book Review of Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community and the Land
“The Coffin in which They Imagine God’s Corpse to Lie”: Roger Scruton and the Problem of Atheism
“The Ninth” and “Brannock’s Vision”
Roger Scruton, Agrarian
Out of the Ordinary: Roger Scruton on Wine and Beauty
Roger Scruton: Faith Amid the Ashes
Roger Scruton’s Aesthetics
“St. Joseph of Cupertino” and “Education in the Humanities”
“History is Now and England”: Roger Scruton and the Beauty of Oikophilia
Music and Our Cultural Decline: Roger Scruton’s Conservative Response
Roger Scruton’s New Urbanist Adventure
Book Review: For the Life of the World A Catechism of Nature: Meditations on Creation’s Primary Realities
Book Review: Do No Harm
“How to Be a Thought-Leader (a business plan)”
Why I am Not Buying a Smartphone
Three Responses
“The Quiet,” “Achilles,” and “After Coal”
Why Were the Luddites Against the Future?
My Covid-19 Secession
Lost and Found: A Tale of Two Cultures
“Snow Geese”
Exiting the World Hospital
Candlelight Witness: Obedience and the Monastic Option
Eric Gill and the Integrity of Work
The Arts of Painting and Living
Impoverishing Ourselves to Get the Job Done
Winning the Hearts, and Votes, of Rural America
Hey, Paul!
Of Justice and Jargon: A Chronicle of Higher Education; Or, They Never Told Me I Could Think Like That
“A Founding Grace” and “Jacoby Falls”
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go; Or a Case for Local History
Meeting a Friend: Notes on a Campus Strike
“Gift”
Nietzsche and the Rage for Equality
Not Civics, Not Citizenship, but Hell: Classical Political Theory and its Broader Sensibilities
“A Response to Christopher Marlowe’s Shepherd”
The Place of Higher Education and Higher Education in Place
Book Review: On Barbecue
Book Review: The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson
Hey, Brad!
Reading and Writing the Lake District
Erasing the Art of Our Imperfect Past
Sabbath Poems 2017
DIY Local Music
“Not a Question of Choice”: Freedom, Identity, and Place in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!
Singing About Architecture: The Jayhawks and Minnesota
“The Tale of Loch Inn”
Wallace Stegner and The Arts of Place Where There is No Place
Notes on Deep America: A Review of Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work
Hey, Bill!
Revolt of the Elite, Revenge of the Resentful
Christopher Lasch’s Last Book
A Better Stand: Christopher Lasch, Wendell Berry, and Populist Hope
Christopher Lasch: Death and Dying in a Front Porch Republic
“Noblesse Oblige”
Christopher Lasch’s Christian Roommate (John Updike) and Ideas of Religious Culture
A Tribute to Christopher Lasch, the Undergraduate Teacher
A Peek in the Window: Reminiscences About My Father
Hey, Bill!
Distributism: A Short History
Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism
Distributist Aesthetics in G.K. Chesterton’s The Flying Inn
“Trees” and “Virtue of Tools”
Catholic Social Doctrine and Herbert Agar’s Distributist-Agrarian “Alliance”
“The Advent of Sadie Miller,” “At Sadie Miller’s Wake,” and “Lawson Miller’s Christmas”
The Problem of Eric Gill
The Violence at the Heart, Reflections on the Agrarian Metaphor
Hilaire Belloc’s Distributism: A Commitment to Place
Putting Two Things Back Together
“The Hermit as Work of Art,” “Riddle,” and “Current”
The Making of Look and See: An Interview with Laura Dunn. She lives in Chattanooga, TN with her husband and seven sons.
“Verse Letter to John”
Berry Has a Point
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: On the Species
The Mad Farmer’s Gay Liberation Front? Wendell Berry on Same-sex Marriage
Marriage, Community, and Provision
On the Limits of Flesh and Spirit and Our Debt to Wendell Berry
