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The power of storytelling: What the country could learn from a small-town festival

Josh Goforth, a storyteller and acoustic musician in his 40s, stood at the microphone beneath the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He had decided...

Strait ballot voting: Iran, the midterm elections, and the war that would not end

On Nov. 3, Americans will elect a new House and one-third of the Senate. By then, the war with Iran will be entering its...

Everyone is above average

WNBA player Sophie Cunningham already had three strikes against her: she’s white, she’s straight, and she regularly came to the defense of her teammate...

The teachers unions’ activist allies: You won’t believe the outside organizations that drive educational dysfunction

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) recently released a report making serious accusations against the nation’s two largest teachers unions. Specifically,...

Kelly Clarkson reminds us that the customer is usually right

Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idol turned America’s talk show sweetheart, is known for being uniquely uncontroversial among her generation of tabloid-trailed pop stars....

Trump has killed the American-led world order

This was the week that the United States joined Russia in dismembering Ukraine, a nation that both superpowers had promised to protect in 1994...

Our bodies, our choice, our 60-year mistake

Ideologies often strain when they come into contact with reality. The intellectual foundations of the sexual revolution are beginning to crumble after two generations of...

Jewish educators were pressured to denounce Israel. They were right to walk away

Imagine preparing to attend an international educational conference, only to learn that your social media accounts, personal affiliations, and connections to Israel were being...

Revisiting Walker Percy’s ‘The Last Gentleman’ at 60

Why did Walker Percy call his second novel The Last Gentleman? I can think of a few reasons, none of them perfectly satisfactory. A gentleman...

When another’s fear is our entertainment

I have an Italian friend who drives like he’s in a death race with every other car on the road, which is to say...
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