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Billboards Are Evil
Read ☛: Billboards Are EvilThere’s a billboard about nine miles North of Cincinnati on I71 that advertises for Dusty’s, a store selling marital (hopefully) aids. It pictures the derriere of a woman sparsely clothed in lacey lingerie. It’s appalling. I for one thought surely we had better public decency laws. But I’m not writing to say we need to…
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Against Politics
Read ☛: Against PoliticsI write starting from the premise that we share the goal of restoring Christendom in and around Cincinnati. This Journal, in part, seeks to chart a course toward that goal. We all approach the question from different angles due to our different natures. I, rather than beginning with a positive vision, want to start by…
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Chickens in the Yard or a Shark on the Roof?
Read ☛: Chickens in the Yard or a Shark on the Roof?You walk out to fetch the paper in a hillside neighborhood overlooking the city. You pause to appreciate the line of houses demurely separated from the street by ivy-covered fences. As your gaze travels up the hill, you stare. A pair of fins emerges just below the horizon, coming out of the shingles of a…
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Continuing the Conversation
Read ☛: Continuing the ConversationChildren learn to form letters, phrase sentences, then to write paragraphs, then essays. In the same way, we have watched our community learn to say hello, to small talk, then to gather and bounce around ideas. But it mustn’t end there.
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Continuing the Conversation
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Children learn to form letters, phrase sentences, then to write paragraphs, then essays. In the same way, we have watched our community learn to say hello, to small talk, then to gather and bounce around ideas. But it mustn’t end there.
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The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as ‘protectionism’ — and that is exactly what it is. It is a protectionism that is just and sound, because it protects local producers and is the best assurance of adequate supplies to local consumers. And the idea that local needs should be met first and only surpluses exported does not imply any prejudice against charity toward people in other places or trade with them. The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. And the principle of subsistence is in fact the best guarantee of giveable or marketable surpluses. This kind of protection is not ‘isolationism.”
― Wendell Berry