The Broken Life of Matthew Thomas Crooks
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Absent from discussions of Crooks’ tragedy are the despair, losses, and mental health crises Covid-era lockdowns caused especially young people; the cruel, vi... Read more.
Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes
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Is it time to disassemble sides and camps, to intermingle tribes, so we may think more critically and independently, build alliances to grapple with real and su... Read more.
Jesus or…Amazon…Loves You
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What could we count on after lockdowns descended? Mainstream churches shuttered doors while the local AA meeting near my house met at a park in the winter. Anot... Read more.
What Have We Learned?
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Dissidents and outsiders saved lives and uplifted spirits during this dark period. We found each other and are still finding each other, making new and hopeful ... Read more.
The End of the World at Fort Bragg
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Pharmaceutical companies occupy airwaves. Fat people dance in a town square in an ad for pills to lower blood sugar. Another ad proclaims that a cartoon guy wil... Read more.
The Quarantine of Humans and Pets at the Height of Covid Mania
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We were in a time of widespread panic and paranoia after the country, and the world, shut down in March 2020. TV people, politicians, and bureaucrats forbid sin... Read more.
The Vicious Punishment of CJ Hopkins
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When asked what gives him courage, Freda said, “I look at this as this a spiritual battle. The people who censor are not good people. If they believed in thei... Read more.
What It Means to Lose Trust
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Competing truths may be difficult and devastating to accept, as we have been enduring in the last few years, but the pain and cognitive dissonance are most cert... Read more.
Send Them
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The sad impulse to sacrifice others to save ourselves appeared when people stepped up and spoke out during the Covid period. If someone said something that made... Read more.
Healing the Culture with Poetry and Song
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We now endure times of deconstruction that feel unprecedented, crises of confidence in almost all parts of our culture. With institutions crumbling, we may also... Read more.
Bureaucratic Doublespeak Gets People Killed
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Orwell argues that these language patterns destroy truth and beauty and clarity; they cloud thinking and collapse culture with their obfuscations. When reading ... Read more.
The Ruination of Children
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With the flip of a switch, the real world they knew ended. When they were confined to their rooms and houses, friends and music, color and life, humor and com... Read more.