Month: May 2019
photo by P. A. Jensen
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Power Couples, Little People
I am one of the little people, it turns out. You know, the kind of person whose job is to make the lives of the big people—the people with the big jobs, the people who are busy, the people with
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Politics & Policy
Rural White Privilege
(First, let’s get this out of the way: Instead of asking whether white privilege exists at all, I’m asking whether it exists uniformly, and what the consequences of that might be.) White privilege, or the notion that white people don’t
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Rural Life, Sports
Striking at the Heart
The stereotypical small-town person, or at least man, is a fan of sports, probably football. As I’ve written elsewhere, this isn’t necessarily wrong, but it is misunderstood. In fact, I’d like to offer a counterpoint: an example of how small-town
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