by Mitch Randall | Nov 4, 2021 | Opinion
Does the first major election after the 2020 presidential election provide evidence that the country is moving to the right again? In Virginia, where President Joe Biden beat the former president by double digits, Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated incumbent Democrat...
by Starlette Thomas | Oct 18, 2021 | Opinion
We’re all out. Still in the throes of a global pandemic, we are running out of a lot of things. Grocery stores posted flyers that read: “There is a national coin shortage. Please use the exact change.” Or “No cash. Credit and debit cards only.” The same can be said of...
by Merianna Harrelson | Feb 25, 2021 | Opinion
Everything in our capitalistic, consumer-driven culture is telling us to do more and be more. According to Yahoo Finance, nearly half of Americans have a side hustle. People aren’t taking these side hustles in order to get ahead. Rather, they are essential just to...
by Leroy Seat | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
John Ruskin was a highly influential British writer, art critic, and social thinker in the last half of the 19th century. His most important literary work highlighted what has been called “the scandal of grace.” When I read the Summer 2019 issue of Plough Quarterly, I...
by David Swartz | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion
“Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America,” Darren Dochuk’s epic history about oil and religion, covers two family dynasties. The Rockefellers, who launched Standard Oil, represented the civil religion of crude and its attempts to rationalize...