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  • A Comparison of Two Very Different Protests

    A Comparison of Two Very Different Protests0

    In mid-January America witnessed two rallies that offer a stark contrast in activism. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, over 22,000 men and women gathered in Richmond, Virginia, to protest the gun laws lawmakers are seeking to enact. Organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), the rally far surpassed the 10,000 participants the VCDL

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  • A Colossal Wreck: Our Sad Presidential Politics

    A Colossal Wreck: Our Sad Presidential Politics0

    On Presidents’ Day, in the week that the Republican presidential candidates were crisscrossing my home state of South Carolina, I stumbled across an essay in a magazine that tells how you can find the gigantic busts of forty-three American presidents standing broken and decaying in a farmer’s field in Virginia. The essay is full of dramatic

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  • A College President’s Advice to College Students: Don’t Borrow

    A College President’s Advice to College Students: Don’t Borrow0

    Back in 2017, I started regularly leaving my office at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, to speak to high school students in the Texas Panhandle. This past fall, I did the same thing in the South Plains. These two areas are the northern most 46 counties in the state of Texas. Driving a

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  • A Code of Manhood for a Generation Suffering a ‘Masculinity Crisis’

    A Code of Manhood for a Generation Suffering a ‘Masculinity Crisis’0

    In June the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic co-hosted an event that discussed the “masculinity crisis” many young men are experiencing in America and Europe.  While there was much disagreement as to what is the root cause of this crisis is and how it can best be addressed, the panelists agreed on one thing: a crisis of

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  • A Co-op by Any Other Name …

    A Co-op by Any Other Name …3

    I was standing at the sink washing dishes and absentmindedly listening to NPR. We were in the pandemic. Most of what I heard on the radio sounded rehearsed. The same words used repeatedly, until suddenly there was something different: “learning pods.” I turned up the radio and leaned in to listen. The radio ladies were

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  • A Cloud Hangs Over Trans Medicine

    A Cloud Hangs Over Trans Medicine2

    Investigative journalism in Sweden has uncovered appalling abuses.

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