Over at Taki’s Magazine 
, Austrian-school economist David Gordon of The Ludwig von Mises Institute dons sword and buckler in agon with a literary Cincinnatus who beats ploughshares into his words – and beats market shares into him in turn, with Berry a thought for the furrow:
We Will Berry You!—The Flaky Socialism of the Crunchy Cons
When you read the Crunchy Cons, one name comes up again and again. As a political movement, the group has been spearheaded by Rod Dreher, and it to him that we owe the phrase “Crunchy Cons.” Yet although he has mounted a spirited defense of the group’s credo in his Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Culture and Its Return to Roots and writes a Crunchy Con blog, he is not the movement’s principal ideologue. That post belongs to the poet, novelist, literary scholar, and farmer Wendell Berry…
Tip: Gordon’s addendum at The American Conservative blog @TAC:
Berry Isn’t a Socialist
I didn’t say in my Taki Magazine article that Wendell Berry is a socialist…
Crunchy principles of strong local community, local food and self sufficiency as possible make a lot of sense to me. I think Gordon is kinda right about the economics, but i dont think economics is a central aspect of crunchy, but TBH I have not read much Berry.
Steve
As it turns out, I’m working on a book myself about a movement I’ve been both studying as well as participating in for 30 years now which I think I’m going to call, that is, both the cultural concept I’ve discovered and the book about it, “Forever Dating”.
The gist of it is this: a man and a woman who find that their attraction for one another extends beyond just one or two dates or beyond just a few sexual encounters can find themselves forming a bond which can extend over, oh, golly, decades. It makes a ton of sense to me, and I’m going to try to get the “Forever Dating” idea out there, maybe on the blogs, so that others who might never before have conceived of such a thing might finally be able to incorporate these principles into their own lives.
After that, a special little project of mine, a particularly flavorful color-and-heat-modified sliced bread product I think will really become the rage.
Robert’s “special little project” should brace for potentially discouraging press – don’t be hurt if the usual cynics and naysayers pronounce it toast…