Wendell Berry’s Plea to Sustain Ourselves - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Wendell Berry wrote an essay in 1993 opposing the “free trade” proposal of the day , which he correctly feared would be backed by the Clinton Administration .

Berry farms in his native Kentucky , and writes novels, poetry, and essays.

The issue is whether or not it makes sense for a country to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food.

The myth that enriching the Communist regime would turn it freedom-loving, we have left ourselves vulnerable in many other vital areas, writes Shmuel Klatzkin .

Our assumptions are being proven fatuous by Chairman Xi , whose use of technology to completely control his subjects has proven Churchill prophetic once again: Explosive forces, energy, materials, machinery will be available upon a scale which can annihilate whole nations.