There’s a recurring debate among liberal and progressive folks as to whether or not the huge shift to the right among rural and working-class people is driven by “cultural” or “economic” concerns, by ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

Louisiana Crafts Guild Marketplace announced today its participation as a "Cultural Passport Event" in the demonstration year of the World Cultural Economic Forum (WCEF), a Cultural Economy initiative ...

Americans for the Arts, a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy group, has released its Arts and Economic Prosperity 6 Study, which shows the impact of arts on the economy. The report, released ...

We like stories of rags to riches, and believe our children ought to end up better off than we are. John Steinbeck famously wrote that socialism never took root in the United States because we’re all ...

Guiding an organization through uncertain financial times can be viewed as a leader’s top priority in the short term, as applying focus to maintaining a positive and confident energy around the office ...

Sociological Forum, Vol. 36, SPECIAL ISSUE: CULTURE AND COGNITION: NEW APPROACHES AND NEW APPLICATIONS (December 2021), pp. 1271-1296 (26 pages) Synthesizing theory and findings from across ...

David Landes has an excerpted piece in the Wilson Quarterly on the “Enterprise of Nations.” Dismissing the claim that globalization is something new, uniquely Western, or nefarious, Landes rather ...

Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit that advocates for arts and arts education in the U.S., released data on how the arts sector affects Oregon. The study showed that Oregon’s nonprofit arts industry ...

The creative part of the equation gave hipster cred to everyone from fashion designers to software developers, as if to say we’re all artists now. The industry part gave economic legitimacy to artists ...