I have a number of friends who are huge admirers of the farmer-poet-essayist Wendell Berry. Now comes word via the Chronicle of Higher Education that the National Endowment for the Humanities has invited Berry to give this year’s Jefferson Lecture , on April 23 in Washington. I look forward to the lecture, and to learning more from him about what so attracts my friends.
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