12/25/25
The American writer James Agee, together with photographer Walker Evans, in 1941 released Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book documenting the lives of impoverished Southern sharecroppers during the [...]
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Posted December 25, 2025in Morain
Posted December 11, 2025in Morain
12/11/25
Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell’s decision to accept Penn State’s head football coaching position devastates Cyclone fans, gladdens Nittany Lions fans, and brings big-time football’s structure front and [...]
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Posted December 04, 2025in Morain
12/04/25
What will you be doing in the year 2033? If you’ll still be younger than 67 years of age, there are innumerable answers. But if you’re 67 or older by [...]
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Posted November 27, 2025in Morain
11/27/25
Most of the top leaders of both political parties converged on Washington’s National Cathedral a week ago to honor the memory of former Vice President Dick Cheney at his funeral [...]
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Posted November 20, 2025in Morain
11/20/25
Thanksgiving gets short shrift these days. The Christmas commercialism colossus, burgeoning every year, now occupies a super-sized chunk of November that used to be the province of the Thanksgiving holiday. [...]
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Posted November 13, 2025in Morain
11/13/25
By the time you read this column, it may be irrelevant. I hope so. But I doubt it. Assuming the federal government is still partially shut down by the column’s [...]
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Posted November 06, 2025in Morain
11/06/25
Kathy and I live in an old house in Jefferson (apparent construction year 1901). It’s the house my parents bought in 1944, and it was my childhood home. My folks [...]
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Posted October 30, 2025in Morain
10/30/25
When ideology takes top priority, America’s world leadership is in jeopardy. The Trump administration’s threats to academic freedom at leading American universities could slow the pace of the nation’s scientific [...]
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Posted October 16, 2025in Morain
10/16/25
As I write this column on Sunday, October 12, the United States government is still shut down. Federal employee are not getting paid. No, wait, that’s not quite true. MOST [...]
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Posted October 09, 2025in Morain
10/09/25
Kathy and I returned last Friday from three days in the Black Hills, communing with two of my graduate school former housemates and their spouses. It’s a reunion that takes [...]
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