When I was a very little girl, I loved a book titled Apron Strings and Rowdy. The simple storyline had twin bear cubs emerging in the early spring from their dark cave and into the splendor of sunlight. There was something about the hopefulness, the playfulness, the newness, the adventure that captured my little girl
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Can you kill truth? Probably not, but a lot of people are doing their best to dig its grave. A man I know teaches in a prestigious private school in Northern Virginia that prides itself on its progressive agenda. Students and faculty attend workshops on such subjects as critical race theory, and teachers must be
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It was a cool, muddy morning in March when I pulled into the empty parking lot of a sprawling forest and nature preserve about 40 miles outside of Fort Worth, Texas. Soon, cars began arriving, filled with exuberant children of all ages, and their parents, who were ready to spend a few hours together in
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Forty female athletes wrote a letter to the House of Representatives denouncing H.R. 734, otherwise known as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The law, introduced on Feb. 1 by Florida Rep. Greg Steube, would ban transgender individuals—that is, biological males—from participating in women’s sports. The bill’s summary reads: “This bill generally
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These last few weeks have attacked me with musings on silence. It started with an anonymous quote I couldn’t shake off (“Never miss an opportunity to remain silent”) and threaded its way through my intellectual and social life. I began to see my unwarranted eagerness to speak in classroom discussions, group conversations, and even social
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