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Jeff Minick

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  • Pride Goes Before a Fall

    Pride Goes Before a Fall2

    Named for Juno, the Roman goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth, June remains one of the most popular months for weddings. Its temperate climate also wins accolades, as from poet James Russell Lowell: “And what is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days.” In our present age, June

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  • Back to the Books: Reinvigorating Our Reading This Summer

    Back to the Books: Reinvigorating Our Reading This Summer0

    In The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt, Jeff Shaara gives us a fine portrait of the 26th president of the United States. He incorporates many historical figures into his story, covers most of Roosevelt’s achievements and adventures, and explores Roosevelt’s personality and thinking. Students looking for an introduction to the 26th president, or

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  • The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites

    The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites3

    In “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) writes of a soldier who laments leaving the “chaste breast and quiet mind” of his mistress to embrace “a sword, a horse, a shield.” But he concludes the poem with this thought: “Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt adore; I could

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  • To Whom Do Our Children Belong?

    To Whom Do Our Children Belong?2

    “Teachers know what is best for their kids,” tweeted Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, “because they are with them every day. We must trust teachers.” In his article “‘These Are Our Kids, They Belong to All of Us’: Three Times the Left Trampled on Parental Authority This Past Week Alone,” Tim Meads looks at this

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