The Barbershop

It would be hard to imagine the existence of Front Porch Republic without Wendell Berry. FPR is a project that does not compute.

I believe we have lost one of our nation’s significant voices.

Rare is the writer who changes a person’s mind; Berry is the kind of writer who changes what one pays attention to.

Wendell is that American thinker who, for me, represents the true wisdom of a sacred and infuriating intersection: the crossroads where Real and Ideal meet.

Let whimsy back into your life. When you do, you may find that joy comes along with it.

Children laugh, after all, long before they understand or speak words.

Remember: All Roads Lead to AI Accelerationism! Don’t Be Caught Flatfooted!

I don’t expect elite ideologues to get it, I just wish they’d stop flattening the problems of the working class into neat stories that serve their political projects.

In a culture that measures a young person’s success by the velocity with which they escape their hometown, I found myself questioning the script.

The vast majority of the past has dissolved into a state of prehistory, forgotten because there was no one who thought it worthy of recording.

Moms and dads know the feeling when a child first goes off to school. It’s the end of the happy chaos of raising children. But grandparents know that feeling too.

If we cannot tell the difference between ourselves and machines, it may not be that the machines are “that good.” It may be that our lives are that bad.