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Lots of politicians running for higher office write books—or have them ghost-written. There they tell readers, which means prospective voters, what they’ve done and what they intend to do. Most of these are mere chest-pufferies that probably find few readers. Josh Hawley’s Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs is different. Here the Missouri senator lays
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Since the turn of the century, our government has come to resemble a no-tell motel. In those establishments, the shady guests come and go, and the management remains mum as to their identities. In the government, the stories come and go, and the management plays the same hush-hush game. Here are just a few of
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“Peace—that was the other name for home,” wrote American novelist Kathleen Norris. During the past few years, America has gone round the bend, addled by a never-ending tsunami of sound-bites, bad news, and disastrous events: the pandemic, the Afghanistan fiasco, the talk of nuclear war, the battles over race and sex in our schools, the
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“No one knows who they are, where they’re from, or where they’re going. But there are millions of them in the United States.” So begins Charlotte Cuthbertson’s “The Gotaways: The Hidden Crisis at the Border.” By now, most Americans are surely aware that, on day one of his presidency, Joe Biden and his administration opened
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