The Water Dipper

John Byron Kuhner describes how seven years living alone brought a slow, strange healing.

Jeff Reimer’s account of life in Newton, KS, which I had the privilege of visiting this summer, opens with some advice about what to do if you encounter a train coming through…

Joe Knight looks to an English folk hero who fought against enclosures to imagine how we might resist digital enclosures today.

Jeffrey Polet doesn’t want a data center in his backyard.

Jason Peters remembers Wendell Berry and muses on his lasting legacy.

Patrick Deneen writes about how reading Berry led him to join with some others to found Front Porch Republic and to look for a job outside the Washington, DC area.

Nathan Beacom considers two different accounts of the role that virtue plays in public life.

Michael Powell visits several cities where “harm reduction” has led to endemic drug use and many overdose deaths.

Molly Taft talks to Joe Allen and others in the roiling, grass-roots movement against data centers.

Paul Pastor describes his beloved home state as the end of the West.

Eric Adler praises Patrick Deneen’s new book on how Homer’s Odyssey reveals the character of America’s tensions.

Luke Allen describes what it’s like to live in northern Michigan, a place that’s increasingly oriented toward tourism.