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Defund partisan public broadcasting
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Defund partisan public broadcasting

As conservatives strive to curtail operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development, they should stay on offense and defund other examples of government philanthropy gone wrong. Priority number one: public broadcasting. GOP congressman Greg Steube of Tennessee introduced legislation earlier this week to abolish USAID. With other prominent Republican lawmakers like representatives Chip Roy...

Hillsdating has its time and place
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Hillsdating has its time and place

Hillsdating gets a bad rap. It provides the fun of dating without intentional clarity, so it should. Saga isn’t that romantic anyway.  But Hillsdating has gotten one thing right: Getting to know people doesn’t have to be serious from day 1. Romantic mingling before becoming official is nothing new. While before the 1920’s “calling” on...

Marxism has no place, left or right
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Marxism has no place, left or right

Americans rarely associate Marxist critical theory with the right, but a recent political stunt shattered this presumption. To think that there can be America and Marxism is a fallacy: It is either Marxism or America.  On Nov. 18, American Reformer published “The Liberal Consensus and the New Christian Right,” an article by young conservative Marcus...

Letter to the Editor: Silliman gets Nixon wrong
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Letter to the Editor: Silliman gets Nixon wrong

This letter is a spirited rejoinder to Daniel Silliman’s critique of Richard M. Nixon’s character. (Elijah Guevara, “Alumnus Releases Religious Biography of Richard Nixon,” Sept. 12, 2024).  In Guevara’s article, Silliman is quoted as saying, “If you see Richard Nixon as a failure, as a tragedy, as a bad person, you’re not wrong, but also...

After Eden: Single-sex wins
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After Eden: Single-sex wins

Female athletes, religious Americans, and culture warriors are celebrating President Donald Trump’s  Jan. 20 executive order “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.” “Ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to self-identify as women and gain access to...