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How Travel Teaches Humility
- Culture, Featured, History, International, Western Civilization
- July 31, 2026

Most mornings I get up around dawn, pour some coffee, and look at the headlines. Those news reports nearly always range from the dire to the ridiculous. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I want to cry, and lots of times I fall into a funk. In this review of some headlines from the last two weeks,
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I wince inwardly while sailing past the gas station on my way to work. The price has gone up since I last drove by it … yesterday. In fact, the price seems to go up about 10 cents a day lately. At that rate, by the end of summer it will be … no, I
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Laid up by some broken ribs, I recently spent some of my evenings watching a Hallmark series, “Cedar Cove.” (Yes, you read that correctly: Hallmark. Everybody chuckle, and then we’ll move along.) I don’t own a television or subscribe to any online movie outfits, but a DVD featuring Andie MacDowell, an actress I admire, caught
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It was, Nzinga Terrell-Brown hoped, the beginning of her dream of becoming a teacher. In 2018, when she got a job as a teacher’s aide, her future looked bright. But a couple months in, she was fired—and didn’t know why. She got another teacher’s aide job but was abruptly fired again. What was going on?
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Think back to when you were 24 years old. What were you doing? Were you in college, or starting your first job? Perhaps you were getting married, or maybe you were working on your master’s degree. The great artist Michelangelo, I recently learned, had just finished his famous “Pietà” sculpture at age 24. How’s that
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America needs to go back to work. Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees back to the office full time last week. Tesla will “create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth,” Musk said. “This will not happen by phoning it in.” Bravo to Musk for rebuffing the fairy tale
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