Bruce Bawer

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Defying the iconoclasts, a new book celebrates Britain's greatest man.

On The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, by Jason Burke.

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The results of a German election shock the continent. ‘United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas' HERE

America’s most overrated novelist is capping off her career by parroting Democratic Party talking points on X.

S ince the appearance of his first novel, Nathan Coulter, in 1960, Wendell Berry’s fiction, poetry, and essays alike have spoken with increasing directness to a single theme: the relationship between man and earth. In the poem “The Old Elm Tree by the River,” he asserts that “In us the land enacts its history”; “An Anniversary” makes clear that the reverse is true as well: “What we have been becomes / The country where we are.” To Berry, a Kentucky farmer who tills the same land his family has worked for generations, man’s proper role is that of steward; yet in his view, most Americans, in this “self-exploiting, world-exploiting age,” are blind to the interdependence of man and earth, and live their lives “in the midst of a ubiquitous damned mess of which we are at once the victims and the perpetrators.” All that technology has done is to “save” us “from work that is meaningful and ennobling and comely” and to replace it with “work that is unmeaning and degrading and ugly.” Worst of all, we have lost the sense of mystical connection with others, past and present, that farm work gives; by working on the land, Berry writes in “Healing,” “we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us.”

The West saw the threat on 9/11. Then it spent a quarter century pretending not to see it.