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Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI

We have been bombarded in recent weeks with apocalyptic headlines about “artificial super-intelligence” and the possibilities of a new era of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) in which AI achieves human capacities for reason and learning.

The Conversation · Oct 15

Wendell Berry found life’s deepest lessons in the soil and turned them into poetry, prose and a call to care for nature

Wendell Berry is an American farmer, novelist and poet. He farmed and also developed a body of writing focused on community, agriculture and care for the planet. His books are The Unsettling of America, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer and The Mad Farmer Poems became part…

The Economic Times · Sep 24

What Wendell Berry meant to Christian farmers going green

In the late evening of Aug. 31, 2026, I missed a call from Jennifer, a seventh-generation cattle rancher in Georgia. She was one of more than 70 family farmers and ranchers across the rural U.S. South and Midwest whom I’d gotten to know through my research over the past five…

The Conversation · Sep 17

Poetry for an anxious world: 5 experts share poems of grief, hope and restoration

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind.

The Conversation · Apr 10

Glenn Storhaug obituary

Other lives: Poet and publisher who founded Five Seasons Press in the late 1970s to share his enthusiasm of the form

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25

Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation

Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.”

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2025

His coffee is coveted around the world. His son doesn’t know if his future is on the farm

‘Pepe’ Jijón loves his life in the Ecuadorian cloud forest, but for his son Jose, the excitement of New York city calls

The Guardian - US · Feb 25, 2025

The small joys of grocery therapy

Where Wendell Berry found solace in the company of wildlife, I like to commune with my fellow cooks

Salon · Jan 4, 2024

As whiskey and bourbon business booms, beloved distillers face pushback over taxes and emissions

The whiskey and bourbon makers of Tennessee and Kentucky have long been beloved in their communities, where they provide jobs and the pride of a successful homegrown industry

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2023

What does the future hold for humanity? Well, 4 out of 10 experts said they were equally concerned and excited “about the changes in the ‘human-tech’ evolution”

Wonder drugs, environmental sustainability or Skynet apocalypse: Hundreds of experts weigh in on what life might be for A.I.-fueled 2035 in new Pew Research report

Fortune · Jul 1, 2023