Civic Essays
What We Owe the Next Generation
There is a kind of conversation that has gone out of fashion in this country, and we are paying for its absence. It is the conversation older people used to [...]
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- America, Brought to You by Our Sponsors September 29, 2026Over the last decade, American news outlets have pulled off a miracle of modern engineering: they turned what was supposed to be a public service into a nationwide, always-on divorce court where the country is permanently arguing over who gets custody of reality. You don’t “watch” the news anymore; you enroll in a tribe with […]Tammy Pondsmith
- Demons of Our Actions September 29, 2026By Trey Tull Our lives are composed of the consequences of our actions, the good, the bad, and the neutral. I believe the pattern of life is for us to choose as we have free will, thus contradicting the predestined fate some believe in. Some believe fate will be what it will regardless of their […]Special Guest
- Combat PTSD: F***ed Up or Wounded? September 29, 2026By Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta’s blog, “Life After War” and is republished with the author’s permission. ________________________ Okay, so the words themselves mean the same thing in your mind. Fucked up. Pain. Shit. Issues. Doesn’t matter what you call it, right? Who cares? What if how you think of it is keeping you stuck? […]Special Guest
- The 160th SOAR, and Me: “Not That Long Ago” …But It Was September 28, 2026It was Branch Week at West Point, the time of year when the Army’s basic branches send representatives–and representative military hardware–to the Academy to promote their branches to the general public, the West Point community, and most importantly, to the cadets. Branch Week is the precursor to Branch Night, which in my opinion is the […]Charles Faint
- Afghanistan: A Woman, Just Like Me September 28, 2026By Kaitlyn Trevathan On Saturday, September 11, 2021, my dad shared a post reflecting on his memory of 9/11. He wrote, “In the coming hours and days, one of my brothers took the oath, one of my other brothers left the World Trade Center the day before on 9/10. He came home early from a class […]Special Guest
