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Alan Guebert shares his thoughts on political identities in rural America, and what books on the subject have been getting wrong for decades.

We resent those we have wronged. We resent those we have harmed. We resent those we are harming.

Yes, Herman Melville sold a lot of books before he died, but it was his Typee, an account of “life among the savages,” that captured the popular imagination, not the unloved and disregarded Moby-Dick. Perhaps the most depressing part of seriously studying English literature is realizing just how little of it was actually read at any

Reams of research show that we have become more isolated and, thus, more alienated from our culture. Out here in the boondocks, our basic culture may even be one of alienation.

Originally published in our sister publication, The Stranger. Alex Garland’s Civil War, a film that premiered at South by Southwest this month, imagines a near-future where the collective “Western Forces” of Texas and California are engaged in a second American Civil War with a United States government led by a three-term president, placing viewers with three journalists chronicling what appears to be a climactic end to the union. Critics assume the premise exploits the boiling...