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Wendell for Wednesday
From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems, 2007, VI:” Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Wendell was selected as the 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH Chairman said of Mr. Berry, Wendell Berry is an…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We’re in the heat of the presidential primary season, and I thought today’s selection from Mr. Berry was especially salient in light of this being the first presidential election since…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Last year, Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson spoke at Indiana University. I went with a friend, and I will happily tell our children that seeing both men live and in…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Wendell famously does not own a computer (or a television for that matter). I thought his essay explaining his decision was especially appropriate for this crazy time of the year,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
But one’s real duty to the future is to do as you should do now. Make the best choices, do the best work, fulfill your obligations in the best way…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A little of Wendell’s fiction for today, from possibly my favorite novel of all time Jayber Crow, Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A little of Wendell’s fiction for today, from possibly my favorite novel of all time Jayber Crow, Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Questionnaire 1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Eating with the fullest pleasure — pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance — is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure…