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April Is National Poetry Month, and We’re All Invited to the Party7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- April 1, 2025
“April is the cruelest month,” begins T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land.” Literal-minded folks living in Minnesota in January or Alabama in August might get a few chuckles from that line. Cruelty and chuckles aside, April is also National Poetry Month (NPM). Initiated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, “National Poetry Month
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It’s Time to Reclaim America’s Cultural Literacy7
- Culture, Education, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED), a process that will still require an act of Congress, leaving his critics aghast and hyperbolically claiming that he is trying to end education itself in America. In fact, he is trying to rescue it. “The experiment
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Boys Will Be Boys … or Will They?12
- Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- March 28, 2025
In January, my young friend Anna and I inventoried authors by gender on the “New Fiction” shelves of our public library. That count came to 123 novels and short story collections written by women, 64 authored by men. The disparity came as no thunderbolt to me, as I’d noticed for several years the number of
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DEI for Guys Is Not the Answer to Rebuilding Masculinity14
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- March 27, 2025
Think DEI programs are on their way out the door? Think again. They seem to be alive and well, but not for women and minorities. This time they’re for men and boys. Reeling from their recent massive losses with the male sex, the Democratic Party is seeking to regain ground in this key demographic with
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DOGE and the Synergy of All Things12
“It was a wicked and wild wind/Blew down the doors to let me in,” goes the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida.” Released in 2008, it includes the reflections of a deposed king as he looks back on his reign, including the time mentioned above, the moment that he took power. The line always interested me
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Craftsmanship, One Secret to Boosting American Happiness?4
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
- March 25, 2025
Gallup just released its World Happiness Report and found – for the second year in a row – that the U.S. did not make the list of the top 20 happiest nations. Not many of us will be surprised by that result. In fact, we may even raise our hands and admit, “Yes, that’s me,
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The Kids Are Alright – An Old Guy’s Take on Young Adults10
- Culture, Family, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- March 24, 2025
I’m the old guy. Threescore and ten years, that traditional marker for old age, disappeared from my rearview mirror a while ago. The U.S. Census Bureau defines young adults as those between the ages of 18 and 34. These are the men and women who will soon command our politics, our economy, and our culture.
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Why ‘Popcorn Books’ Are Good for You16
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- March 21, 2025
If literature were a food pyramid, a ranking of vitamins and nutrients for the mind and soul, the classics would be the equivalent of steak, eggs, and fish, books high in intellectual protein like Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Sigrid Undset’s “Kristin Lavransdatter,” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Next would come the fruit
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Closing the Department of Education, Promoting a ‘Curriculum of Family’11
- Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 20, 2025
Rumor has it that President Trump plans to sign an executive order on March 20, 2025, dismantling the U.S. Department of Education (ED). “Formally closing the department requires an act of Congress,” NBC News reports. “But even without formally shutting it down, the Trump administration could effectively make it nearly impossible for employees to carry
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