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The good and the bad of the ‘New Jim Crow’

Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow” makes some good points, and regardless of your opinion of her work she has been deeply influential in our country’s politics and culture. I would suggest when reading her book to balance it out with Thomas Sowell’s book “Discrimination and Disparities” and “Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience […]

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Conservatives shouldn’t abandon Facebook

I understand many people’s concerns with Facebook and Twitter censoring speech, and I empathize with those frustrations. However, I do not believe the choice to abandon Facebook for other social media platforms is very wise. It’s fine if you want to try different social media outlets, but abandoning what is still the top social media […]

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Luther’s legacy influenced the way we work

I am a Christian who believes in the priesthood of all believers. By trade, I work in the employment business, and I place many people in what are often considered thankless and mundane jobs. So labor and work are matters that are of interest to me. So I was especially interested as I recently was […]

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Anonymous sources and loss of trust in the media

“That’s one problem with anonymous sources: They often get it wrong because why make sure you have it right when you will not be held accountable for what you say.” -John Christie, Poynter Most of us have probably heard by now of The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s article entitled “Trump: Americans Who Died in War […]

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Inside the mind of the founder of modern conservatism

William F. Buckley, Jr. is a fascinating character. In some ways, he and Martin Luther are two of the most fascinating characters to me in the past 500 years.  They have some similarities. I realize this can be an odd statement on the surface, considering that Buckley was Catholic while Martin Luther castigated the Catholic […]