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Are your wages paid with real coin or with counterfeit? Bill Kaufman puts it this way in his new book Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists:

[T]he most ennobling work we do is seldom remunerated in greenbacks. Bearing and raising a child, cultivating a garden, just being there for a sibling or friend to lean on: this “work” is compensated in a currency far more valuable than Uncle Sam’s paper. . . [This is] the work we do for “nothing.” (For everything, really.) . . . This is the work whose coin, whose only coin, is love.

In his review of Kaufman’s book for the Intercollegiate Review, our friend Caleb Stegall discusses the real divide in American society today. It is not between liberal and conservative, but between materialists who argue about the best way to amass “more” and those who recognize a transcendent power.