“Politics makes strange bedfellows,” said Charles Dudley Warner. Surely it has only gotten worse since his time. An industrially minded society drained of solid philosophical thinking does what it does, which is to reduce the complexity of reality into as few parts as possible. So, in our day, all thinking somehow falls within left and right �...

Wendell Berry’s novel Hannah Coulter watches the breakdown of an agrarian culture through the novel’s namesake.  Hannah Coulter knows waves of life take us where we weren’t expecting, yet she knows too that as man drifts from life sustained on the land to life sustained by specialization and mechanization he drifts away from something he nee...