Tocqueville, Technology, and the Tittabawassee

Tocqueville, Technology, and the Tittabawassee
(Kaytie Boomer/The Bay City Times via AP)
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ten try to explain my low-trajectory movement through the world of public policy by pointing out that while others in my cohort were sitting around dinner tables in Manhattan listening to Irving Kristol debate Norman Podhoretz about the future of liberal democracy, I was fishing for carp in a mudhole back in my Midwestern home town.

That “mudhole” was the Tittabawassee River, which flows through Midland, Mich., where I spent my teenage years. In recent decades, the river had been cleaned up and the carp replaced by small-mouth bass and Northern pike. I’ve tried to go back every summer to spend a day enjoying this sport fishery with a local artist friend. We would put his ancient (and heavy) Grumman-made aluminum canoe into the river immediately below a dam in the village of Sanford, and float downstream to Midland. Read Full Article »


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