November 2005

Reviving the American Dream—November 2005

PERSPECTIVE

Agrarianism From Hesiod to Bradford
by Thomas Fleming

Life in community.

VIEWS

The Old South, the New South, and the Real South
by Tom Landess
Taking off the Yankee spectacles.

Reattacking Leviathan
by Mark Royden Winchell
Starving the beast.

The Case for American Secession
by Kirkpatrick Sale
Still a good idea.

The Writer as Farmer
by James Everett Kibler
Under Heaven.

Revitalizing Rockford

Scott P. RichertIn January, this column will celebrate its fifth anniversary. When Tom Fleming and I originally conceived of the idea back in 1998 (as an occasional “Letter From Rockford” to be written by various local activists), we were capitalizing on the fact that our city was considered by marketing agencies and national chains as an ideal testing ground, because, demographically—on questions of race, income, education, etc.—Rockford represented the national averages.

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