. . . at least for the foreseeable future, and at least in most national races. Obama’s Department of Labor is in the process of banning farm children (including teens) from working on their families’ farms . They are set to implement a pages upon pages of family-farm regulations, . . . . Continue Reading »
Martha Bayles is the author of the best book on pop music I know, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music . For its final chapter, she borrows the title of a William Bell song, You Don’t Miss Your Water ‘til the Well Runs Dry , so as to refer to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Marilynne Robinson is not Rock, and this is not a song. Rather, it is simply a three-word sentence dropped by the acclaimed novelist last fall, when I heard her speak at Skidmore College. But the following was initially provoked by another writer, Bill Kaufmann. Kaufmann is a hard one to . . . . Continue Reading »
TWO collections of Wilson Carey McWilliams essays! Patrick Deneen introduces them here . One is more America-oriented, the other more general. Wendell Berry is the muse, model, and poet of Porcherism, but McWilliams is its real political philosopher. Or deserves . . . . Continue Reading »
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