What Wendell Berry thinks about democracy
Farmer, poet and essayist (1934 to 2026) whose The Unsettling of America (1977) argued that industrial agriculture destroys land, community and culture together.
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1 dated position, 2012, in their own words. Our reading of what Wendell Berry has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIn such modest joy in a modest holding is the promise of a stable, democratic society, a promise not to be found in “mobility”
↗It All Turns on Affection (2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities)neh.gov 4th of 6 in this piece