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6.2 Civility and Civic Virtue
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
Civility, Insult, and Friendship in the Merit-Victim Sweepstakes by Jeff Polet
George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company & Conversation
Political Life Animated by Civility and Incivility by Michael P. Federici
The Mannerlessness of Power and the Power of Manners by Katherine Dalton
H.L. Menken on How to Make Sex Civil by D.G. Hart
"Heaviness of Fate, Lightness of Song" by Steve Knepper (poem)
G.K. Chesterton and the Pugnacious Pursuit of Truth by Jeffrey Bilbro
Cheek-by-Jowl Citizenship; or, What We Should be Talking About by Kevin Brown
Hey, Padre! by Fr. Gregory Hogg (in conversation)
6.1 John Lukacs
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
A Surprising Friendship by Wendell Berry
Democracy without Temperance: John Lukacs and the Challenge of Populism by Michael P. Federici
The Impressionist by Jeremy Beer
John Lukacs, Localist by Richard M. Gamble
"Palo Duro Canyon Rima" and "Core Hole 112 on the Waddell Lease" by Seth Wieck (poems)
The Historian as Statesman: Lukacs on Churchill by Michael Lucchese
The Historian as a Man of Letters by Jeff Nelson
David James Duncan's Wounded Healers by Jeffrey Bilbro
Hey, Bill! by Wilfred McClay (in conversation)
5.2 Friendship
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
An Education in Friendship by Wendell Berry
Place, Proximity, and Friendship: A Tribute by Jason Peters
"The Difficulty of Talking about Color" and "Late Evening Walk" by John M. Ballenger (poems)
Friendship: The Secret Appointment of Heaven by Jeff Polet
Waitin' on a Friend by Bill Kauffman
Friends in High Places by Susan McWilliams Barndt
"Crows in the Pecan Tree" by Madeleine Austin (poem)
Friendship and Memory in the Civil War Poems of Whitman and Melville by Kelly Scott Franklin
Ties that Bind, a Review of Properties of Blood by Katherine Dalton
Involuntary Society, a Review of The Banshees of Inisherin by Michial Farmer
Truth North, a Review of North Country by Will Hoyt
Hey, David! by David Bosworth (in conversation)
5.1 Food and Drink
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
Mr. Ramos's Iconic Fizz by John Shelton Reed
Wishing it Could Always be So: Broussard Street Hospitality in South Louisiana by Elizabeth Corey
Until I Cross Water; or, Hot Boudin, Cold Coush-Coush by Brian Miller
Eating Our Way Home in Kentucky by Katherine Dalton
"To Michelle Elizabeth" and "Untitled" (poems) by J. Michael Thompson
Hippy Hippy Shake, Being a Short Dissertation on the Glories of the Cocktail by Jeff Polet
Two Cheers for Hunting by Michael P. Foley
"Kite" (poem) by Patrick B. Whalen
Where at Least a Few People Know Your Name by Bill Kauffman
Putting a Stable Economy Under Good Farming: Our Home Place Meats and the Problem of Parity Pricing by Mary Berry
Book Review of The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 by Dedra McDonald Birzer
Book Review of Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community and the Land by Katherine Dalton
4.2 Sir Roger Scruton
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
“The Coffin in which They Imagine God’s Corpse to Lie”: Roger Scruton and the Problem of Atheism by Mark Dooley
“The Ninth” and “Brannock’s Vision” (poems) by Steve Knepper
Roger Scruton, Agrarian by Allan Carlson
Out of the Ordinary: Roger Scruton on Wine and Beauty by Jeff Polet
Roger Scruton: Faith Amid the Ashes by Fr. Gregory Hogg
Roger Scruton’s Aesthetics by Roman Bonzon
“St. Joseph of Cupertino” and "Education in the Humanities” (poems) by Kelly Scott Franklin
“History is Now and England”: Roger Scruton and the Beauty of Oikophilia by Mark Mitchell
Music and Our Cultural Decline: Roger Scruton’s Conservative Response by David Corey
Roger Scruton’s New Urbanist Adventure by D. G. Hart
Book Review: For the Life of the World A Catechism of Nature: Meditations on Creation’s Primary Realities by Richard Rankin Russell
Book Review: Do No Harm by Adam Smith
“How to Be a Thought-Leader (a business plan)” (poem) by Jeffrey Bilbro
4.1 Civil Dissent
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
Why I am Not Buying a Smartphone by Jeff Bilbro
Into the Whirlpool: Is Secession a Solution to Our Woes? by Robert Elder
Three Responses by Allan Carlson, Jeff Polet, and Michael P. Federici“The Quiet,” “Achilles,” and “After Coal” (poems) by John M. Ballenger
Why Were the Luddites Against the Future? by Kirkpatrick Sale
My Covid-19 Secession by James Howard Kunstler
Lost and Found: A Tale of Two Cultures by Rory Groves
“Snow Geese” (poem) by David Lyle Jeffrey
Exiting the World Hospital by Adam Smith
Candlelight Witness: Obedience and the Monastic Option by Fr. Cosmos
Eric Gill and the Integrity of Work by Wendell Berry
The Arts of Painting and Living by Jeffrey Bilbro
Impoverishing Ourselves to Get the Job Done by Felicia Wu Song
Winning the Hearts, and Votes, of Rural America by Bill Leuders
Hey, Paul! by Paul Kingsnorth (In Conversation)
3.2 The Higher Ed Issue
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
Of Justice and Jargon: A Chronicle of Higher Education; Or, They Never Told Me I Could Think Like That by Jeff Polet
"A Founding Grace" and "Jacoby Falls" (poems) by Eric Taylor
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go; Or a Case for Local History by Allan C. Carlson
Meeting a Friend: Notes on a Campus Strike by Susan McWilliams Barndt
"Gift" (poem) by Matthew Faller
Nietzche and the Rage for Equality by Roman Bonzon
Not Civics, Not Citizenship, but Hell: Classical Political Theory and its Broader Sensibilities by John Seery
"A Response to Christopher Marlowe's Shephered" (poem) by Eve Ruotsinoja
The Place of Higher Education and Higher Education in Place by Mark T. Mitchell
Book Review: On Barbecue by Jason Peters
Book Review: The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson by Paul Schellinger
Hey, Brad! by Bradley J. Birzer (in conversation)
3.1 The Arts of Region and Place
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From the Editor by Jason PetersReading and Writing the Lake District by Jeffrey Bilbro
Erasing the Art of Our Imperfect Past by Katherine Dalton
Sabbath Poems 2017 by Wendell Berry
DIY Local Music by David Heddendorf
“Not a Question of Choice”: Freedom, Identity, and Place in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! by Rachel B. Griffis
Singing About Architecture: The Jayhawks and Minnesota by Michial Farmer
"The Tale of Loch Inn" (poem) by Andreas Hibernicus
Wallace Stegner and The Arts of Place Where There is No Place by Matt Stewart
Notes on Deep America: A Review of Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work by Jon Lauck
Hey, Bill! by Bill Kauffman (in conversation)
2.2 Christopher Lasch
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From the Editor by Jason Peters
Revolt of the Elite, Revenge of the Resentful by David Bosworth
Cristopher Lasch's Last Book by Wilfred M. McClay
A Better Stand: Christopher Lasch, Wendell Berry, and Populist Hope by Eric Miller
Christopher Lasch: Death and Dying in a Front Porch Republic by Robert Westbrook
"Noblesse Oblige" (poem) by David Wright
Limits, Risk Aversion, and Technocracy by Jeremy Beer
Christopher Lasch's Christian Roommate (John Updike) and Ideas of Religious Culture by David Crowe
A Tribute to Christopher Lasch, the Undergraduate Teacher by Robert Westbrook
A Peek in the Window: Reminiscences About My Father by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Hey, Bill! by Bill Kauffman (in conversation)
2.1 Distributism
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From the Editor by Jason PetersDistributism: A Short History by Allan C. Carlson
Equity and Equilibrium: The Political Economy of Distributism by John C. Médaille
Distributist Aesthetics in G.K. Chesterton's The Flying Inn by Cameron Moore
"Trees" and "Virtue of Tools" (poems) by Jeffrey Bilbro
Catholic Social Doctrine and Herbert Agar's Distributist-Agrarian "Alliance" by James Matthew Wilson
"The Advent of Sadie Miller," "At Sadie Miller's Wake," and "Lawson Miller's Christmas" (poems) by David Lyle Jeffrey
The Problem of Eric Gill by Jeffrey Polet
The Violence at the Heart, Reflections on the Agrarian Metaphor by John V. Glass III
Hilaire Belloc's Distributism: A Commitment to Place by Ryan Hanning
1.1 Wendell Berry
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From the Editor by Jason PetersPutting Two Things Back Together by Jeffrey Bilbro
"The Hermit as Work of Art," "Riddle," and "Current" (poems) by Sally Thomas
The Making of Look and See: An Interview with Laura Dunn by Laura Dunn and Jason Peters
"Verse Letter to John" (poem) by James Matthew Wilson
Berry Has a Point by Darryl Hart
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: On the Species by Jeffrey Polet
The Mad Farmer’s Gay Liberation Front? Wendell Berry on Same-sex Marriage by Scott H. Moore
Marriage, Community, and Provision by Russell Arben Fox
On the Limits of Flesh and Spirit and Our Debt to Wendell Berry by Jason Peters