If we can retain the poetry and community of baseball maybe we can rediscover it elsewhere, too, and begin the work of re-knitting the social fabric that keeps this country and its people from dividing and breaking apart.
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“A Representative who displays the Confederate flag on his desk—a flag many Iowa boys died to take down forever—can represent us no longer,” guest contributors and native Iowans Joe Carroll and Jim Kirkwood write. “The next person to represent Iowa’s fine 4th district must embody the spirit of neighborly charity in which Iowans take pride.”
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Suicide of the West offers one of the most robust defenses of the West in recent memory.
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I've written about all kinds of different topics, from politics to religion to higher education -- and beer. For this piece I had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Mahoney from BuckleDown brewing in suburban Chicago.
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