Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community. New York. Pantheon Books. 1993. Wendell Berry, self-styled intellectual, social commentator and purveyor of common sense, authored a biting series of essays on the state of American life and economy, compiled in 1993 under the title Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. This collection of commentaries on varied aspects of existence as Americans in the emerging global community is worthy of note in many of its accurate criticisms of American waste and pompousness, …showed first 75 words of 1450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1450 total…and imperative for the preservation of society. Maybe that’s why old-fashioned values lasted so long, they worked. Berry is a tough nut to crack. His ability to craft logical arguments is impressive, but often supplanted by a blind desire to cling to ideology informed less by reason than by convention. Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community is an important work, but not the masterpiece it could have been in the hands of a more adept logician.