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Stories to Build the Minds and Souls of Gen Z Guys0
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- March 12, 2026
March is National Reading Month. Inspired by the March 2 birthday of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, the event is aimed at children, families, and communities, with a heavy emphasis on the younger crowd. Given the decline in reading and the increasing failure by many public schools to teach grade-level literacy, this emphasis should be applauded.
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Embracing Heroes of the Past, Warts and All0
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- March 10, 2026
Saints are heroes, but heroes are rarely saints. When nuance was still a word in the American vocabulary, we understood that a hero came with warts. Take Robert E. Lee, for instance. Dwight Eisenhower pronounced Lee “one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation” and kept his portrait in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt described Lee as
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Old age has made me more aware that many national and international events play out more as farce than tragedy, with the comedy heavily dependent on irony for its laughs. The same folks who want to control the climate zip about the world in private jets. The elected representatives invested with “the power of the
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Beware the Bots of Baal0
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- March 2, 2026
Every day a new poem from the Society of Classical Poets arrives in my inbox. Published recently were two poems, “Beelzebots” and “Blabberbots,” by Susan Jarvis Bryant. First up is “Blabberbots”: The day he called that twaddle-bot a she Instead of just a simple, soulless it, Is when my smitten eyes began to see This chatter-slut was stirring
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