Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Ambitious’
“Whip me, whip me!” said the masochist to the sadist. “No, no!” said the sadist to the masochist. That’s one of my favorite wordy jokes. Another is…
September 10, 2019
Magazine - Business
‘Trying to hang on’: Trade war, ethanol rules batter American farmers
Iowa farmer Dave Savage thought he was done with operating loans. Savage, who considers himself a “generation-and-a-half farmer,” had gotten his farm to the point where he…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Always remember
This year brings us the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. On that day, I was observing an Iowa high school classroom as part of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The future of rock could be its past
On Aug. 30, one of rock music’s biggest acts put out its first album in 13 years. Since 1992, the band Tool has only released five albums…
Education
Obituary: Nie Yuanzi, 1921-2019
The summer of 1966 marked the beginning of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China. Angry masses of youth foaming at the mouth from the radical brainwashing of…
Magazine - Features
I blame PC, not the NRA, for Parkland
You’re reading this because I don’t want you or anyone else to feel the way I feel. After my daughter Meadow was murdered on Valentine’s Day 2018…
Beltway Confidential
Do what before we go?
A New Hampshire mom got tired of telling her four kids to go to the bathroom before they got in the car, so she put the message…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A Christmas miracle
It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas. When you take a holiday as seriously as we do, planning can’t start early enough. And for me, that…
Beltway Confidential
Remembering San Antonio’s great New Orleans sound
Since 1963, it has been strange but true that one of the best places to hear traditional, New Orleans-style jazz was 540 miles away in culturally dissimilar…
Magazine - Life & Arts
I’m on the band wagon
Those with a yen for slapstick will lobby for Singin’ in the Rain as the best movie musical. Hipsters with a gritty sensibility might make the case…