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Shelby Kearns
Shelby Kearns is a writer and teacher. She provides Zoom support for virtual events hosted by the civic organization Braver Angels and serves on the editorial board for Commonplace, the journal of the Catherine Project. Follow Shelby on X at @shelbytkearns.
by | Feb 17, 2024

Despite recent claims that the Academy Awards excluded women from coveted categories — claims made by none other than #Hillary Barbie — the nominations suggest an unprecedented appreciation of films made by or for women.  Sure, Barbie’s Greta Gerwig is…

by | Jul 5, 2023

Long after students have returned to in-person learning, grim headlines still depict the educational hit that students took during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, a Stanford economist recently predicted that the learning loss for students whose schools shifted to virtual…

by | Nov 11, 2022

This election season, a few candidates tried a novel approach to raising funds and awareness for their campaigns: the platform OnlyFans, where creators provide (mostly) sexual content to paid subscribers. Martha Bueno, a Libertarian candidate for the Miami-Dade County Commission,…

by | Oct 23, 2022

There’s a promotional video for the new conservative dating app, “The Right Stuff,” with women sharing what they’re looking for in a man: someone who has “the alpha male vibe,” “wants to have kids,” and “whose faith is important to…

by | Oct 17, 2022

The mainstream media sounded the alarm after Italy elected Giorgia Meloni as its next prime minister. Even if many doubt Meloni’s sincerity in distancing herself from fascism, her mainstream views — such as her faith and her Euroscepticism — are…

by | Sep 25, 2022

On Aug. 12, the Wall Street Journal reported on “quiet quitting,” an approach to work brought to the forefront of public attention after the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps counterintuitively, quiet quitting doesn’t refer to employees’ resigning from their jobs but to…

by | Aug 26, 2022

Three Tennessee school boards denied the application of the American Classical Academy, a K-12 charter school system affiliated with Hillsdale College that provides students with a classic liberal arts education. The American Classical Academy alleges that these decisions are politically…

by | Aug 23, 2022

Breaking History: A White House Memoir By Jared Kushner (Broadside Books, 512 pages, $35)  Jared Kushner’s new memoir discusses an April 2020 conversation between former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci: Trump wanted to end lockdowns during the COVID-19…

by | Jul 28, 2022

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently visited Washington, D.C., to accept the Frank Newman Award for State Innovation. His acceptance speech claimed that education is under assault: he cited book bans, speech restrictions, and the “othering” of students, teachers, and parents….

by | Jun 4, 2022

People can’t stop talking about Men — that is, the latest film from director Alex Garland. The trailer suggests that Men is just another “elevated horror,” a genre that uses slashers or the supernatural to explore social justice themes from…

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