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How is populism today? Join Adam Smith in an interview with Jeff Taylor for insights into populist ideology, how it has been used, and its potential for the future.

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Mannon reflects on Opelt's Provisions: Finding Home through the Food Folklore of the Appalachian Table: "Food is a connection to culture, a link to place, and an opportunity to foster a sustaining relationship with one’s body."

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Can you get rid of your smartphone? Edward Mason reflects on individual choices that can help us break free of the technopoly.

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In which I recommend essays by @what_freedom_, @davidlmcpherson, @bonniekristian, @DanaGoldstein, @natashanyt, @nickripatrazone, @Douthat60, and others.

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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about aliens, yearning, and alignment. https://t.co/qullXVxdfx

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Skabelund offers an inspiring review of Blake's They Poisoned the World, reflecting on how we can fight the chemicals eating away at us and our planet. The enemy, he says, is "the industrial-chemical complex."

https://t.co/cD5rLW8eVa

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"Humanity has a dangerous love for band-aids and a perilous habit of avoiding root causes." Is solar geoengineering just another example of this tendency?

https://t.co/l0H4yKXBas

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Jacob Adkins reflects on longsuffering as a fruit of the spirit: "We receive it through means we would not have chosen for ourselves."

Read his article here: https://t.co/H7A8IYbuND

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Tim Colvin offers insight into the Anti-Federalists and their diverse views: "It’s important not to lose sight of the strangeness of the Anti-Federalists. They lived in a very different moral world."

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Elizabeth Stice wrestles with the declining standards in higher education and the "purpose-paradox" at the heart of education.

Read her article here: https://t.co/3jZ0ztF776

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In which I recommend essays by @tjlears, @Doug_Lepisto, @Hannah_Cristine, @valerificent, @stevenstrogatz, and others.

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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about empire, pods, and math. https://t.co/AqmojzO7wB

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Anderson illuminates the history of the timepiece in a religious and cultural reflection. Can Daylight Savings Time be "a liturgical cycle calling us twice a year to mind how we mind time"?

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"But as love makes me cry out, so grief silences my soul." - The Pearl Poet
Bannon introduces us to Pearl, a poem which is profoundly "immediate and eternal, physical and spiritual."

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In a critique of women's health care, Grant Martsolf addresses the "deep philosophical problem at the heart of the American health care system": its insufficient and non-wholistic definition of health.

https://t.co/RNO1CiC7Fk

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Lucas Nossaman has an excellent review of Wendell Berry's last essay collection. My review is in the forthcoming issue of Local Culture.

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How should we understand Wendell Berry's essay? Nossaman reflects on Dispatches from Rural America, "a fitting end to the career of a great American writer."

https://t.co/HX1YLKRHmO

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In which I recommend essays by @freyaindiaa, @AmberLappOH, @publicroad, @michaelpollan, and others.

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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about fantasy, salmon, and Springfield. https://t.co/axFtpHJrqp

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This is another great issue.