They say that all politics is local, but I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps it’s more than that. Maybe the true beating heart of America can only be truly discerned through the lens of small towns; those off-the-beaten path places where our great experiment of a country plays out day after day, and where communities are continuously tinkering with their reality in response to a world transforming around them. I say this after learning about a new book written by Atlantic writer James … [Read more...]