Walker Larson

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Walker Larson
Walker Larson holds a BA in writing and an MA in English literature. Prior to becoming a writer, he taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin. He is the author of two novels, Hologram and Song of Spheres. When not working on his acreage or spending time with family and friends, he blogs about literature and education on his Substack, The Hazelnut.

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Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’3
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- September 13, 2024
Often, we want quick fixes. We live in the tyranny of the present moment, and it’s hard for us to take a long-term view of history and our own moment within it. Most things take time—especially good things, like restorations and healing and growth. But we become impatient. We want results now. We lose hope.
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What We Lose With Our Attention Spans 5
- Culture, Featured
- September 12, 2024
Shakespeare’s plays were considered popular entertainment when he first wrote and staged them in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Often today, the name Shakespeare carries certain high-brow or elitist connotations, but in his own time, Shakespeare wrote for everyone, from the aristocrats of Elizabeth’s court to the tradesmen who took an afternoon off
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How Big Agriculture Damages Local Communities 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
If you drive through most rural areas in our country, you’re likely to see some old, abandoned farmsteads, lying broken like great bones in the mottled landscape. The houses are grayed and weathered, with shattered windows that give way only to darkness, the whole structure leaning out of kilter as though setting itself against a
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The Cost of COVID: The Grueling and Expensive Journey to Treat V*ccine Injury 4
- Science, Featured, Health, MomThink
- August 30, 2024
$40,000. That’s how much Kate Zerby has spent trying to put herself back together after the Moderna COVID vaccine wreaked havoc on her body. As Intellectual Takeout reported back in 2022, Kate Zerby of St. Paul, Minnesota, suffered a serious adverse reaction to her Moderna shot, beginning the night after she got it, February 16,
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