Rural is plural
We were in danger of becoming a caricature. When a parent stood up at a local school board meeting and expressed her dismay at…
Read MoreWe were in danger of becoming a caricature. When a parent stood up at a local school board meeting and expressed her dismay at…
Read MoreOne thing I’m not doing in my poems: reporting on anything that really happened. When I say I’m from New York, Glaswegians say, “Oh,…
Read MoreThe grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And…
Read MoreI slept through ninth grade U.S. History. The following year, my sophomore government class was a joke. Our teacher was regularly out sick and…
Read MoreGood governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: For the “Local Government” issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…
Read MoreThe interest of {merchants and master manufacturers} … is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the…
Read MoreEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Amy Carpenter-Leugs considers what we desire in…
Read MoreWhen it shall be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;…
Read MoreTo establish rural strongholds, progressives must stop stereotyping rural, working-class people as White, reactionary hillbillies who automatically swing Right. History reveals a much more complex truth….
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