From the Mississippi Delta
After reading William Alexander Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee and Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s From the Mississippi Delta, we are told two parallel stories of the Mississippi Delta. Percy’s appeals…
When It’s Darkness on the Delta
While teaching in the Czech Republic I would often discuss the cultural differences between the Czech Republic and the United States. It would lead to comparisons of the Czech Republic…
Unevolved Neoliberal Logic
I recently watched an interview of Rory Sutherland by the the Institute of Economic Affairs—a British think tank in your classic neoliberal Thatcher/Reagan tradition. Sutherland, a Georgist advertising executive, gave more…
American Irony
This July 4th we celebrated the 250th birthday of this country. Last week our president and his activist judges aimed to change birthright citizenship, a law that has been in…
America as West Texas
Spring 2025 Going on three years in the Czech Republic and more than ten years traveling in Europe, I’ve gotten to know the continent and its people a little better…