12+ hour, 24+ min ago   (202+ words) (“The Peace of Wild Things,” 1968) (“An Entrance to the Woods,” 1971) “I see you are still clinging to the idea of an agricultural economy of diversified small farms that produce for local markets and local consumers.” “Yes, I’m still clinging to…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (226+ words) Instead I’d give them a book, preferably used so that the history of readership could be tactile, and I’d tell them I hope this offers you the right lesson at the right time in the right place. That you’ll see…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (938+ words) The first thing I saw was a poem. A friend posted Wendell Berry’s “How to Be a Poet (to remind myself),” and at first, it only registered as someone sharing a familiar title. Then, a few seconds later, the fine…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (416+ words) FPR will be running several tributes to Wendell Berry in the coming days. If you’d like to chime in with your own–about a letter he sent, a time you spoke with him, a book of his that shifted your…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (175+ words) “The Restless Odysseus in All of Us.” Luke C. Sheahan praises Patrick Deneen’s new book: “This book is about the soul, especially the American soul, and the tensions within which we abide. Deneen sees The Odyssey as a story about…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) As we peered over a lookout, taking in the scenery, my three-year-old son said to me, “Can you do statues touch the sky one?” I was confused. “What?” “Like statues touch the sky,” he said. I finally realized that he…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (221+ words) Here, then, are half a dozen thoughts about the kind of education that could incorporate what BMCC’s shattered Icarus could teach us. I am writing about them not because I know how to live up to them but because I…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (935+ words) Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1403+ words) is the Very Best Artificial Intelligence for All Pain Psychic and Bodily! Say Goodbye to the Burden of the Free Exercise of the Moral Sense! Say Goodbye to the Cumbersome Messiness of Democracy! Say Goodbye to the Vicious Stress of…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (450+ words) In the end, Baraka’s isolationist refusal to collaborate with whites and to rely on state support, and his generally antagonistic ethos, made his movement unsustainable. Yet for a period of time, it functioned to effectively recover and mobilize the agency…...