After the deaths of George Michael and Carrie Fisher, a Daily Beast headline declared, “We have lost our Prince and Princess.” It is a declaration that says a lot about our culture. The first thing to take note of about such a headline is that it indicates that these two celebrities were seen as members of some
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Robert Leo Hulseman, creator of the Red Solo Cup, died last Wednesday. He was 84. When I saw that he had died (news of his death started pick up steam on social media last night), I decided to look at his life. Hulseman is described in news reports as “a devoted Christian and family man
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This morning brought the news that long time economist Thomas Sowell is retiring from his position as a syndicated columnist. Curious, I flipped through an archive of his many columns and stumbled on one entitled Education: Then and Now, written in early 2006. One paragraph in particular caught my eye. Like many of the older
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For one hundred plus years, Americans have been told that owning a home embodies the ideal, an essential life goal. After the housing crash of 2008, that unquestioned ideal is no more. What precisely is wrong with renting? And what is wrong with renting something small? These days, I live in Atlanta, Georgia. A few
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No presidency in my lifetime was greeted with such enthusiasm and unhinged hope as that of Barack Obama. At the start of his first term, a cult-like following had already developed among the intellectual and media elite. It was the dawn of a new age, marked by exuberant anticipation of justice, fairness, equality, peace, and
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