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Hundreds of majors, access to professors, research opportunities, really awesome sports, a zillion student organizations—everyone seems to have it all. Beautiful, diverse students and beautiful,

Hundreds of majors, access to professors, research opportunities, really awesome sports, a zillion student organizations—everyone seems to have it all. Beautiful, diverse students and beautiful,

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for the cause of good rhetoric: two national conventions with a wearying parade of over-fluffed speeches, the ensuing

“How was your summer?” was the obvious lead-in to conversations, a question I’m never sure how to answer. And then, it struck me…

Well, with the summer Olympics under way, here we go again. How do we celebrate women athletes without sexualizing them? I’m not sure we’re much

I wasn’t a great swimmer, I had never shot a bow or paddled a canoe, and lights-out readings of The Giving Tree didn’t impress me

After all, this is a show about advertising, the industry that trades on desire—evoking it, creating it, exploiting it.

I report to you late on Friday night after two exhilarating days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. I’m exhausted and

I admit there’s something romantic about wood stoves and typewriters and horse-drawn carriages and other technologies of the past. For about ten minutes. Then, get

Today, I would like to give some grateful public praise to people who put in a lot of none-but-the-angels labor: musicians.

So I wonder if this show is helping us discover what we value after all: modesty, decency, responsibility, honor.