In 1993, Wendell Berry wrote an essay, “A Bad Big Idea,” sharply opposing the “free trade” proposal of the day, which he correctly feared would be backed by the Clinton Administration. Berry farms in his native Kentucky, and writes novels,…
I Published in 36 lavishly illustrated quarto volumes between 1749 and 1804, the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi rivaled Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie as the publishing sensation of the 18th century….
Tariffs are bad for business. They harm the international division of labor and drive up consumer prices. Their comeback shows that we are living in an era dominated by politics. A new age of power politics has begun. Donald Trump…
Those weekend getaways to the countryside are a good reminder of how pleasant it is to shower with hot water, without intervals of ice-cold water, and no lizards on the ceiling. Perhaps we don’t value the comforts of the big…
The presidential bid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended where skeptics assumed it would, with a full-fledged endorsement of Donald Trump for president, setting off a battle by Kennedy to get his name removed from the ballot in battleground states such as…
It was a proud moment when the Philippines, where I lived for over five years, became the first country to accept biotech Golden Rice. That was in 2021. It’s now a dismal moment that the nation’s highest courts, acting independently…
It was perfect. We had a blue VW Vanagon with white daisies, girlfriends with very long, very tangled, very blonde hair, and a dense cloud of marijuana floating above. We would strum the guitar insistently singing Lennon stuff, and, in…
For some reason, a lot of conservatives have a knee-jerk negative reaction to lab-created meat. I checked the writings of the likes of Edmund Burke and John Locke and found nothing on this. Likewise with P.J. O’Rourke — though doubtless,…
“These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they all just wanna have total control.” So sang Oliver Anthony two weeks ago in a song that has been heralded as a “blue-collar anthem” — and for good reason. Oliver’s tune…
