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Wendell Berry’s weapons of mass destruction

By Erik Curren | September 20, 2011

Wendell Berry

I'm pretty sure that in his now-famous press briefing of Feb. 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wasn't trying to write poetry in the vein of William Carlos Williams. Yet, how beautifully he captured the conundrum at the center of all human attempts to make sense of reality, helpfully set to verse by Slate: The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Donald Rumsfeld, epistemology, philosophy, poetry, torture, TS Eliot, Wendell Berry, William Carlos Williams

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