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From the Editor–Local Culture 4.1: The Civil Dissent Issue

Think not, then, of the ubiquitous screens and hideous architecture and suburban metastasis and microwave dinners. Think rather of Eric Voegelin’s famous quip—Voegelin, who said that “no one is obliged…
Jason Peters
February 25, 2022

A Conversation with Bill Kauffman

I am the illegitimate son of Dorothy Day and H.D. Thoreau.
Jason Peters
July 21, 2015

A Day of Remembrance

Let the memories come, as I know they will, and be done with it.
Jeremy Beer
June 6, 2011

The Narrows of the Hassayampa

The explosive growth in wilderness-designated land is one of the few modern desert Southwest trends of which I heartily approve. In 1975, Arizona had several hundred thousand acres of designated…
Jeremy Beer
May 3, 2010

It was 20 Years Ago Today…Edward Abbey Lives!

BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY--Edward Abbey died twenty years ago today. A product of the perfectly named Home, Pennsylvania, son of the conjugation of a Woman’s Christian Temperance Unionist and a Wobbly…