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Wendell Berry

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What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us

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By Wendell Berry
| WAUK-AM (Jackson, WI)
In 1996, Bill Clinton won about half of U.S. counties that were at least 85% white and earned less than the national median income—i.e. rural counties. In 2016, such counties went 658 for Donald Trump and two for Hillary Clinton. One reason rural America has turned MAGA red is because the well-intentioned folks in the Democratic Party establishment and their allies at progressive nonprofits have been poorly served by editors in the liberal media.
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Allen Levi on Theo of Golden

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By Leo Tolstoy, Wendell Berry
| Trending News (Podcast)
The author of Theo of Golden sits down with Russell in Andrew Peterson’s Chapter House for a conversation on the breakout novel. NO SPOILERS! Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here. Russell is joined by Allen Levi, the author of the breakout novel Theo of Golden, to ask why so many readers are hungry for a story about kindness—and whether such a person could exist outside the pages of fiction.
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The Hidden Life of Duck Women

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By Elizabeth Wainwright, Wendell Berry
| Plough Quarterly Magazine
For many years on the tiny and remote Norwegian island of Fjærøy, Anna Måsøy has tended eider, wild sea ducks that come to nest there. Each year she cleans out their old nests, rebuilds broken ones, waits for the birds to arrive, and deters predators when they do. When the ducks leave, she gathers their downy feathers, which are made into just a handful of duvets.
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