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The author, walking down a path | Photo from Charles Coursey

Rising from the ashes of a toxic ideology.

By Charles Cousey All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —attributed to Blaise Pascal, 1623–1662 By the time I graduated high school, I was mentally ill — and I knew it. Eighteen years of constant hellfire and brimstone “Christian” fundamentalist
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A counter-protester with a U.S. flag in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota | REUTERS/Tim Evans

Law and disorder.

By Erin C. M. Anderson Less than two weeks ago, 2,000 federal agents were deployed to my city. Only a week has passed, as of this writing, since a woman was killed by an ICE agent shortly after dropping her child off at school — and only a handful of
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The real cost of phone bans.

By Jack Ballard Teenagers in the United States and across the world have a phone problem. In 2023, more than 50% of teens in the U.S. spent 4 hours a day or more on social media, per Gallup. That’s more than half of a school day! It’s
Banner image for ontherecord2030.org | Image by Jacob Sargent

A present record of the future.

Creating ontherecord2030.org
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Japanese police officers | Photo from David Berg, Flickr

The Deadliest Difference: Japan, America and the fatal culture of firearms

By Karen Hill Anton STATISTIC: People killed by handguns in various countries in 2023 Japan—10 Great Britain—50 Switzerland—47 Canada—611 United States—38,658 “Ten? That many?” That was the shocked reaction of a friend, an emergency room doctor in Japan who’s never had to treat
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Dr. Will Cole and Dr. Jessica Knurick hug after participating in the author's panel discussion | Photo from Jeff Krasno

MAHA vs. ANTI-MAHA

My experience at Eudemonia.
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Photo by A.M. Hickman, edited by Russell Nystrom

The drifter's lament.

Being a drifter was lonely, but invigorating.
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Who Told You It’s Wrong to Live Vicariously Through Your Children?

By Michael Cohen If you’re a parent, you’ve heard it: Don’t live vicariously through your children. It’s said so often it feels like common sense. Teachers repeat it. Therapists caution it. Parenting books shout it in bold type. The “good” parent, we’re told, folds up
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A joke for Thanksgiving.

A joke for Thanksgiving.

Make your family hate you with this insufferable yarn!
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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe | Photo from Antonio Westphalen

Five Rooms of Memory – When Silence Shook Humankind

By Antonio C. Westphalen Berlin, April 15, 2025.  Since 2018, four young au pairs from Germany have lived with our family. They shared not just their time and care, but their culture, their language, and themselves. From the very beginning, our children asked when we would visit them, when we
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Photo from Isaac Wood

A white boy telling black stories.

By Isaac Wood I’m a Midwesterner living in a small Appalachian city. I’m your typical white man, a member of the nearly eighty-five percent white population you might expect from Johnson City, TN. But I’ve learned there’s a lot more to see in a place than
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The author with her children | Photo from Amelia Morris

When Politics Become Your Religion

By Amelia Morris This essay has been lightly adapted from its original, which was published on Amelia’s blog.  “She’s just trying to be relevant,” a friend said forgivingly about a person we both know, a person whom I thought was being too loud and assertive with their opinion.
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