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by | Nov 3, 2023

Few things in the cultural landscape are instantly recognizable as quintessentially American: Elvis, apple pie, and the diner. In fact,…

by | Oct 6, 2023

For decades, I taught a course in European economic history that stressed the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath and spent…

by | Aug 8, 2023

China’s purchases of United States farmland have increased 456 percent since 2011, with 384,000 acres purchased in 2021, said Rep….

by | Aug 4, 2023

The Classic Car Show in downtown Hastings, Minnesota, is a summer tradition. Every third Sunday from May through September, cars…

by | Aug 3, 2023

NBA player Jonathan Isaac recently launched UNITUS, a new sports and lifestyle apparel company with the mission of glorifying God….

by | Dec 22, 2022

Ya can’t make it up. Stanford University has been in the news lately because it has issued a list of…

by | Oct 25, 2022

Let us consider those angry Americans who make an issue over which public toilet they will use — and, for…

by | Jul 21, 2022

The president of the United States, equal parts senescent and feckless, garners record-shattering low approval ratings seemingly each week. This…

by | Mar 29, 2022

The year was 1999. My Norwegian partner and I were living in Amsterdam. One morning I saw in the newspaper…

by | Feb 9, 2022

An old English proverb recorded by John Heywood in 1546 (and who may or not have been a distant relative…

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