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  • Harvester on farmland.

    America’s Pernicious Rural Myth

    An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”
    by Steven Conn, Jacob Bruggeman via Public Books on April 9, 2025
  • Farmers on a tractor harvesting grain.

    Rural America Has Lost Its Soul

    Jefferson's vision of the family farm is a myth that won't die.
    by Steven Conn via UnHerd on November 27, 2023
  • Photo of Lynne Cheney superimposed over a photo of Ron DeSantis.

    Ron DeSantis and the Specter of Lynne Cheney

    Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.
    by Steven Conn via The Chronicle of Higher Education on February 8, 2023
  • Political cartoon depicting fat-cat tycoons sitting on money on a dock made of commodities held aloft by struggling laborers.

    From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American 'Elite'

    American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.
    by Steven Conn via Origins on May 1, 2017
  • An Enemy Until You Need a Friend

    The role of "big government" in American history.
    by Steven Conn via Origins on November 1, 2014
Book
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t
Steven Conn
2023

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Hating the Heartland

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Beyond the Myth of Rural America

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on October 16, 2023
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