Poem of the day: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and to die.And you will have a window in your head.Not even […]
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry writes “Against Killing Children” in The Christian Century
In the October issue of The Christian Century, Wendell Berry writes powerfully about school shootings and the destruction of children and childhood.
Current editor Eric Miller on “The Instructed Imagination”
Listen to Eric Miller‘s address at the recent Front Porch Republic conference. His tour-de-force engages with Wendell Berry, Mark Heard, St. Augustine, Walker Percy, and Flannery O’Connor. Listen: Or watch it here:
Ideas in progress: Eric Miller on Wendell Berry and localism
“I’m preoccupied with discovering ways to help us, in our communities, catch and maintain sight of wholeness, health, holiness—that whole constellation of ancient, utterly crucial words that describe what we’re made to be, what human flourishing looks like.”
Wendell Berry on the difference between “training” and “education”
I was reading in my commonplace book this morning and ran across this quote from Wendell Berry. It come from his essay “Discipline and Hope” published in the 1972 collection: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural: Training is a […]
Current’s editor Eric Miller today on Doomer Optimism podcast
Doomer Optimism‘s Ashley Colby recently interviewed Current editor Eric Miller, and this podcast episode is live today. It really is a fascinating conversation about a wide range of topics, well worth a listen. And you should read Eric’s “Ideas in […]
Ideas in progress: Eric Miller on Wendell Berry and localism
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? My book’s working title is “A Strange and Abiding Hope: […]
A conversation on Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole
Literary scholar Jeff Bilbro and philosopher Josh Hochschild discuss Wendell Berry’s controversial book The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Scholars. Watch:
Song of the Day
In honor of Eric Miller’s piece today on Wendell Berry.
Wendell Berry’s forthcoming book will “offend most everyone”
The 87-year-old agrarian writer lets it rip in his forthcoming book The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Here is a description of the book, which is scheduled to appear in early October: Wendell Berry has […]
“His membership is not in a party or a public movement, but in Port William”
Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow is one of my favorite novels. I first read it twenty years ago and revisit it often. (I think it might be time for another reading!) I love the way Berry once responded to writer Grace […]
Wendell Berry turns 87
Orion Magazine has put together a nice collection of Berry essays, poems, short stories, and media clips published by the magazine over the last forty years. Here’s a talk from Orion’s 1999 “Fire & Grit” conference: