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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a... →
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the... →
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's... →
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of... →
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame... →
Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly... →
There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede... →
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and... →
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become... →
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't... →
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize... →
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