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There is no lord so high in the land,
that he does not live by farmer’s hand.
— German farmers’ wisdom
The second week of January 2024 is seeing nationwide protests by farmers, truckers, and trade- and craftsmen, as well as ordinary citizens in Germany. (more…)
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We’re in a bad economic period and we’re feeling it. Due to a combination of factors, mostly related to the inflationary policies of the world’s governments during the COVID lockdowns and ongoing lockdowns in China, we’ve seen price inflation that has made it more difficult and more expensive to live. (more…)
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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In August of this year, China engaged in military exercises and heated rhetoric against Taiwan and the United States in light of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the embattled island nation. Veteran paleoconservative pundit Pat Buchanan believes that a “US-China collision somewhere in the Western Pacific appears inevitable,” with Taiwanese sovereignty as the catalyst. (more…)
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Richard Lyman Bushman
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2018
Most of us who are not farmers are tempted to take farming for granted. We certainly see the results of farming in the produce sections of our supermarkets. Beyond that, we have pleasant images of industrious country folk in denim overalls just doin’ their thing amid amber waves of grain. (more…)