JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

JOHN A. TEEVAN

Culture, Economics, and Common Grace.

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Who Would Use Jack Sparrow’s Compass?

Professor Michael Clune wrote something in the Chronicle of Higher Education clearer than a month...
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The Daylight Savings Time Kerfuffle

An economist declines to write the April Fools essay on Daylight Saving Time, and explains...
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I’m Glad to Live in ‘Stupid America’

We are told America's problem is rigid moralists forcing values on everyone else. A case...
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Death By Bureaucracy

The killing of a United Healthcare CEO drew shocking justification. What American resentment toward the...
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1968: Mahalia, Martin…Gloria, Tom

Mahalia Jackson, Martin Luther King and the story behind the 'I Have a Dream' speech,...
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1968-3: The Chicago Convention

The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago was a circus of violence and division. An usher...
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1968-2: The Protests

A firsthand look at the protests of 1967-68, from campus activism to the movements that...
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1968-1: The Assassinations

John Addison Teevan recalls the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, and how 1968 shaped...
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What’s Next? A New Two-World Order

Russia invaded Ukraine, China turned belligerent, and the 34-year-old world order ended. What a new...
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Curriculum Is Curriculum

When the Soviet Union fell, Eastern European nations dropped the Russian curriculum. Why what we...