the creation of the police reporter
I’m reading The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman. So far, it’s a greatly entertaining read, but the title is so bad that I never would have picked up the book if it hadn’t been classified as the...
View Articlethe corruption of newsboys
Does selling newspapers lead to a life of crime? It may sound absurd, but that’s exactly what some Progressive Era reformers asserted, at least when the sales “men” were actually salesboys —...
View Articleall of this has happened before (because of my bad memory)
We’re reaching the end of Exodus in our Sunday-morning family Bible reading. The boy gets to go play after a chapter from his children’s bible and a short sampling of the language of the King James....
View Articlestuck between past and future
We’re finishing up the Exodus story in our family Bible readings. After the children’s bible’s story about Joshua and Caleb as spies, the grownups returned to Thomas Cahill‘s The Gifts of the Jews, in...
View ArticleThe latest from InvisibleOrder.com: Are We Good Enough for Liberty?
Over on InvisibleOrder.com/blog, Mike Reid announces the latest ebook from IO: We’re delighted to reveal the ebook version of Lawrence Reed’s new Are We Good Enough for Liberty? Download the MOBI ebook...
View ArticleMy Toastmasters Icebreaker speech
Mister Toastmaster, fellow Toastmasters, esteemed guests. The irony of the "Icebreaker" speech, at least for me, is that talking for 4 to 6 minutes about myself strikes me as neither easy nor...
View ArticleHouse of Refuge: Fiction for a Future of Freedom
Today Liberty.me adds Mike DiBaggio’s award-winning novella House of Refuge to the Library. I was very excited by the opportunity to release a Liberty.me edition of this story, as my editorial preface...
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