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Crisis: On John Crowe Ransom’s Newly Discovered Agrarian Classic BY JAMES MATTHEW WILSON
In 1930, “Twelve Southerners” published a thick volume of essays entitled I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. Led by the already venerable poet and critic John [...]

Clyde Wilson on M.E. Bradford

M. E. Bradford, Agrarian Aquinas

I’ll Take My Stand by Randall Ivey

A review of I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners (LSU, 2006). In this age where the homogenization of our culture is nearly complete, thanks largely to widespread media and rampant industrialism, I’ll Take My… »

The Defeat of the Southern Agrarians

Another Reason Why the Agrarians Lost by Tom Landess

Andrew Lytle’s “The Hind Tit” is the best essay in I’ll Take My Stand (1930), not only because it focuses on the small, independent farmer, the class the Agrarians most admired, but also because Lytle nails the volume’s primary thesis to the church door, the dilemma his region and nation faced in 1930—the choice between virtue and practicality.

An Intellectual Legacy for Southrons

Freedom & Tradition: M.E. Bradford’s Southern Patrimony by Mark Malvasi

Allen Tate and the Agrarian Mission by Lee Cheek

Allan Carlson on Wendell Berry and Southron Agrarianism

A two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful by Allan Carlson (Resilience)

AmCon: Fugitive Agrarians: Meeting the men behind I’ll Take My Stand By Thomas H. Landess