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Local News Is Dying. This 25-Year-Old Bought His Hometown Paper Anyway.
Two weeks ago, Evan Newton purchased a local paper in Georgia. He has three employees and a dream.
Frannie Block
Sophie Cunningham’s Common Sense
When the basketball player said, ‘Young girls in sport shouldn’t have to go against biological men,’ the mainstream media shrugged. How far we’ve come.
Kat Rosenfield
Welcome to Secular Sharia
Drunks, cheaters, and Karens beware: TikTok is the new home for public floggings.
River Page
How to Make a Racist a Free-Speech Martyr
Shiloh Hendrix went viral when she screamed the N-word on a playground. Now she’s been convicted of disorderly conduct, despite her awful actions being…
River Page
Coleman Hughes: The Case Against Sports Betting
Sports gambling scandals used to be a rarity. But thanks to the new era of frictionless betting they’re becoming commonplace, harming the integrity of…
Coleman Hughes
Usha Vance Does Not Need Saving
The left wants to believe that every conservative wife is secretly miserable. But the vice president’s wife is ‘happy and healthy.’
Freya India
Sending My Kid to Camp
‘What if they don’t like me?’ she asked me from the bus. All I could say is: ‘You’re going to be great. I love you.’
Peter Savodnik
America Needs a New Kind of Public Intellectual
Now that trust has shifted from institutions to individuals, who you trust matters more than ever. The voices worth following are defined by what they…
Aaron Renn
Read ‘Catcher in the Rye’ When You’re Young, or Not at All
J.D. Salinger’s famous coming-of-age novel turned 75 this week. But if you ask Joseph Epstein, it’s not worth reading after the age of 20.
Joseph Epstein
There Is Good and Evil. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t Afraid to Say So.
Nolan trusts Homer—and his audience—to recognize that villains deserve defeat and heroes deserve to triumph.
Spencer Klavan
The Humiliation of Prince Harry
He’s been crusading against the press for years, but last week he suffered a brutal, humiliating defeat.
Kara Kennedy
My Grandfather, the Secret War Hero
A cache of old documents gave me a window into the life of a proud, brave man who had been part of the resistance during World War II. Why in the world…
Nicholas Wyman
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