
This is not
the age of information.
This is not
the age of information.
Forget the news
and the radio
and the blurred screen.
This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.
People are hungry
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.
– David Whyte
A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights.
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Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago. As America wrestles with its 250th birthday, this commemoration also cuts to the heart of who we are.
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James Wilson, later a Supreme Court justice, signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He presaged Lincoln by insisting the former owed much to the latter.
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There are no shortcuts around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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