Wendell Berry, Son of Kentucky

What the late writer taught us about truth, marriage, and faith. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. We have been told that we live in a time after democracy, that liberalism has failed, the American constitutional order is lost, and all that remains is picking a side in an agonistic struggle between factions that lust after the power to govern our discordant nation. The philosopher that many, particularly on the right, turn to in order to anchor their account of our decline is the late 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche. Jake Meador lives in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and four children. He is a contributing writer at The Dispatch and serves as the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, a media organization working for Christian renewal. He is the author of multiple books, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, National Review, and First Things, among others. More We Think You’d Like