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...Nobody can doubt that virtually all of the president's political enemies would vehemently defend themselves against a charge of racism. Virtually all of them observe the forms and taboos of political correctness. If any very visible one of their own should insult the president by a recognized racial slur, they would all join in the predictable outrage. But the paramount fact of this moment in the history of racism is that you don't have to denominate the president by a recognized racial slur when his very name can be used as a synonym. This subtilized racism is not only a...

Wendell Berry: Leftist or Old-Fashioned Conservative? by George Shadroui 6 December 2003 Some have labeled this novelist and poet a leftist because of his criticisms of the excesses of modern America, but he is really more of a traditionalist or Jeffersonian. Somewhere in the hills of Kentucky, on a few acres of bottomland, an old farmer scratches out books and articles by hand, in the quiet, reflective serenity of the place he calls home. His name is Wendell Berry. And for almost 30 years, he has been writing essays, novels, short stories and poetry in a determined effort to temper...