Tag: Wendell Berry
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.
Men in the Field: The Farming Stories of Leo L. Ward,...
The best stories in the volume offer Cather-esque explorations of the links between place and people. The stories are remarkable for their dense layers, for their social, psychological, and emotional intricacies.
From the Editor–Local Culture 3.1: The Arts of Region and Place
Is only the life of the busy and bustling place, the place of mergers and acquisitions, worthy of story and song and canvas?
A Pastoral Inheritance: James Rebanks and a Tribute to Our Late...
There is much wisdom contained in English Pastoral for suffering churches. If the last fifty years have shown that innovation and modernization aren’t the solution to our ill-health, they have also made a nostalgic return to yesteryear an impossibility.
A Metaphysics of Place: Reintegrating Nous and Cosmos at the Foot...
Even in the midst of this sad era of cold, objective ambition, the possibility of grateful participation in the cosmic life of creation remains for each of us.
Where Is Our Freedom to Exercise Sympathy?
The same things that happened to the family farms, and to farmers like my father, are now happening to the colleges, and to faculty like me.
Embattled: The Story of the O’Hanlon Fresco
Mill Valley, CA. As our country struggles to come to terms with its racist past—and present—a controversy surrounding a 1934 mural at the University...
Learning to Live a Second Life in Two Stories by John...
There are second chances for some of us, but even second chances bring new losses. For me, it is the grace and hope of these stories and others like them in the work of Berry and Berger that has earned them pride of place on my shelves and in my life.
The Roots of an American Mover
The sins of the movers may be visited upon their children, but it’s possible for the children to suffer well the consequences of their parents’ and grandparents’ decisions.
Baldwin, Buckley, and Berry on Racism and the World Order
Drawing from both Baldwin and Berry allows us to see that the racist and imperial policies of the past continue to do immense social, economic, cultural, and ecological damage around the globe. Racial injustice is among other things an ecological issue.