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The Roots of America’s Falling Fertility

Human fertility is not the root of our problems. It is but one symptom of a deeper, more elemental problem.

The Dirt on Resilience

I have come down with a severe case of confirmation bias. I count myself as one of those who believe that contact with the earth is a good thing. In…
December 12, 2019

Wendell Berry and the Great Economy

Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry's Great Economy.

Time-Travel Economics with Jonathan Swift

Rock Island, Illlinois. It’s a little-known fact that many of our finest writers owned time machines and paid frequent visits to the future. Furious John Ruskin (1819-1900), for example, that…
Jason Peters
March 4, 2009