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Cleavage in a Bored Country Jul. 30, 2025
Some countries have true, serious problems. Then there are countries that have national discussions ... Read More
Abe Lincoln and the Penny May. 30, 2025
The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal ... Read More
How Can We Stop the Killing? May. 25, 2023
WASHINGTON — Do you know that this country was once derided as being the most prudish of all t... Read More
The Toxicity of Accepted Risk and Accepted Loss Aug. 07, 2022
When I post a new profile picture to social media, I sometimes think: Will this be the photo shown o... Read More
Vestiges of Americana Fading Before Our Eyes Jun. 14, 2022
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pennsylvania — In truth, the last Howard Johnson's restaurant closed long befor... Read More
Stephen Sondheim: Writing the Notes of His Times Dec. 01, 2021
It was a very good death, the day after Thanksgiving dinner with friends. The musical composer and l... Read More
Happy 80th, Darlin' Bard Bob Dylan May. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — Bob Dylan made me break into silent tears once, in concert on Nov. 11, 2001. Two ... Read More
Drive-Ins Offer More Than Movies May. 15, 2021
By Victor Block From time to time, residents of the little town of Farmington, Maine, gather to atte... Read More
Two Cultures May. 06, 2021
Washington — I spent late Saturday afternoon in what has become, for me, a rite of spring. I w... Read More
Cultural Outrage Mar. 12, 2021
Today, we live in a society where we seem to sprint from one manufactured cultural outrage to the ne... Read More
The Flaws of Our Team Dec. 13, 2020
The year began with such ambition in our household. We were going to learn how to bullet journal and... Read More
When the Counterculture Becomes the Culture Aug. 05, 2020
In November 2015, three years after taking the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl, quarterback Co... Read More
How Appalachia's Children Highlight the Region's Best Attributes Feb. 11, 2020
MOUNTAIN CITY, Georgia — Just off U.S. Highway 23, along the spectacular views of the Blue Rid... Read More
Elizabeth Warren Anoints Herself God Jan. 01, 2020
The Pew Research Center reports among its major findings in 2019 a dramatic drop in Americans identi... Read More
The Left to America's Children: Your Past Is Terrible, and Your Future Is Terrible Oct. 08, 2019
A rule of life is that everything the left touches it ruins: art, music, Christianity, Judaism, race... Read More
America Must Take a Good Look in the Mirror Aug. 22, 2019
If there was ever a moment in time when we as Americans needed to dig deeply and take a good look at... Read More
American Tragedy Aug. 16, 2019
One thing about tragedies: They reveal people for who they really are. In the past two weeks, we've ... Read More
The Root Cause of Mass Shootings Is the Rage of Alienation Aug. 16, 2019
Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman's motivation. At Columbine High School in Co... Read More
Welcome to Our Times Aug. 06, 2019
When the tumult and the shouting have died from the pitch occasioned by the El Paso and Dayton massa... Read More
Finding America at a Back-Roads Gas Station Jun. 11, 2019
DICKERSON, Md. — Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what people tell you when yo... Read More
