Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America About a year ago, I wrote about Carnival and Lent as a metaphor for America’s eternal cultural divide. I said, basically, that it all started with the Puritans and their Lenten self-renouncing rigidity vs the Southerners and their Carnival-esque…
Maybe you’ve heard about the culture wars. Maybe you’ve even heard about something called cultural competence. Cultural competence is a term used in places like healthcare when…
This story on environmental regulation was originally published by The Revelator. Subscribe to their newsletter. November 5, 2025 – by Nicholas Crane Moore Throughout the 2024 campaign,…
Sometimes things go backward and forward at the same time. New York City held its first Labor Day parade the same year the Chinese Exclusion Act was…
The phrase “shortcuts to greatness are roads to hell” comes from George Packer writing in the November issue of The Atlantic. It’s true though, in that shortcuts…
In which we use 8 measures to objectively analyze whether Trump is winning the fight. With a numerical scorecard and everything! Follow us on X, Instagram, YouTube. It occurs to…
