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Thinking through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: The Title

By Rachel Laudan November 3, 2008 Food Politics, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 8 Comments

Given the rest of his article, I assume that Pollan intends his presumptive title for the President of the United States–farmer in chief–to contrast with the traditional role of Commander…

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Thinking Through Pollan’s Farmer in Chief: Preliminaries

By Rachel Laudan October 17, 2008 Food Politics, Oddities and Things that Don't Fit 8 Comments

OK. Here’s what I am going to do. Michael Pollan had thirteen printed pages for his Farmer in Chief article in the New York Times Magazine. I can’t churn out…

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