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Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry’s latest books are The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice and How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership. He was a Stegner Fellow in the creative writing program at Stanford University in 1958–59; his classmates included Ken Kesey and Ernest J. Gaines. Berry lives in Kentucky and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2010.

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Industrialism’s High Premium on Its Own Survival

The industrial system is a pseudo-organism, and its survival entails the exclusion, and so finally the destruction, of social and natural systems.

Mar 25, 2024