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Tag Archives: Society and Culture
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer© 2010 Joel Salatin300 pages Joel Salatin is crazy and glad to be so; in print and in media like Food, Inc and Fresh, he gleefully rejects what the late 20th century produced as conventional … Continue reading
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Tagged farming, goods/services, Joel Salatin, organic, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Small Mart Revolution
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition© 2007 Michael Shuman285 pages Independence has long ceased to be the American credo, supplanted by another: efficiency. Throughout the 20th century, small businesses supporting towns and families were devoured … Continue reading
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly© 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe 500 pages Written as an indignant response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin shook the American landscape in the mid-19th century as few other novels … Continue reading
The World Until Yesterday
The World Until Yesterday© 2012 Jared Diamond481 pages Earth has been the province of mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, and for most of the time he has transversed it in small tribal groups, … Continue reading
Power, Inc
Power, Inc: the Epic Rivalry between Government and Big Business© 2013 David Rothkopf448 pages Historians of western civilization are used to viewing its late medieval and early modern period through the lens of a church versus state battle; the … Continue reading
Anthem
Anthem© 1938 Ayn Rand128 pages In a dark future, the triumph of collectivism has created a global society deteriorating to near-medieval conditions. Man is utterly broken by the state, dominated by institutions from birth onward. Raised in cohorts in government … Continue reading
Human Scale
Human Scale© 1980 Kirkpatrick Sale500 pages Human Scale is an ambitious assault on big business, big government — the very concept of Bigness. Opening with biology, Kirkpatrick Sale first establishes his basic operating principle: for … Continue reading
I’ll Take My Stand
I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition © 1930 various authors. 410 pages “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called The Old South…Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow…Here was the … Continue reading
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness© 1952 Dorothy Day288 pages (Harper Collins, 2009( Dorothy Day came of age amid the Great War, a child of struggling parents whose labors to make ends meet stayed with her even after they had achieved some … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged agrarianism, anarchism, biography, Catholicism, Christianity, Distributism, labor, memoir, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, poverty, religion, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture, solidarity, subsidiarity
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The Redneck Manifesto
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hicks, Hillbillies, and White Trash Became Amerca’s Scapegoats© 1998 Jim Goad272 pages Rednecks of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your bills. Jim Goad’s The Redneck Manifesto is a raucous mixture of southern … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged American South, dissent, history, labor, poverty, social criticism, Society and Culture
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