Josh Goforth, a storyteller and acoustic musician in his 40s, stood at the microphone beneath the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He had decided to start his set with a song, and since the tent was just yards from the railroad tracks, he chose a bluegrass standard called “I’m Bound to Ride.” It follows a […]
On Nov. 3, Americans will elect a new House and one-third of the Senate. By then, the war with Iran will be entering its ninth month. It began before dawn on Feb. 28, when U.S. Central Command opened Operation Epic Fury and Israeli aircraft began the companion campaign Israel called Operation Roaring Lion. A spring […]
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) recently released a report making serious accusations against the nation’s two largest teachers unions. Specifically, the committee accuses the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers of “promoting dangerous ideology instead of advancing our children’s learning.” The report details, among other things, using schoolchildren […]
WNBA player Sophie Cunningham already had three strikes against her: she’s white, she’s straight, and she regularly came to the defense of her teammate Caitlin Clark, who is disfavored by the league for similar reasons. Then Cunningham stated an obvious truth that everyone in the world believed until the day before yesterday: that men who […]
Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idol turned America’s talk show sweetheart, is known for being uniquely uncontroversial among her generation of tabloid-trailed pop stars. Hence, it’s absurd and hysterical that Clarkson began the biggest social media controversy of the week with a post on X complaining that she was “treated like Julia Roberts in Pretty […]
Ideologies often strain when they come into contact with reality. The intellectual foundations of the sexual revolution are beginning to crumble after two generations of reifying autonomy, vilifying taboos and tradition, and insisting that consent was the only thing that mattered. But the ethics of the sexual revolution persist as dogma among the elites running […]
This was the week that the United States joined Russia in dismembering Ukraine, a nation that both superpowers had promised to protect in 1994 in exchange for the surrender of its nuclear arsenal. MAGA sophists and apologists variously claim that this is either about bringing a speedy peace or about withdrawing the U.S. from an […]
Imagine preparing to attend an international educational conference, only to learn that your social media accounts, personal affiliations, and connections to Israel were being scrutinized before you even arrived. That was the situation facing 68 American Jewish educators scheduled to participate in a professional development program in Reggio Emilia, Italy, from Oct. 11–16. Instead of […]
From humbling beginnings, Joe Strada built a half-billion dollar a year HVAC business; now he wants to bring his hard work, no-nonsense approach to Washington DC.
