Requiem for The Hoover Dam

In a scene in Goethe’s Faust, the central character recounts to Mephistopheles the experience of surveying a vast expanse of ocean. For the Romantics, the ocean was a living symbol of Nature’s sublimity. Faust’s blood is of a different spirit...
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 Appalachian Self-Reliance

The federal government has abandoned the people of Western North Carolina. Officials claim a lack of information and red tape, but these are obstacles that melt away when they truly want something done – a fact of which the locals are acutely aware...
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 Taxi Driver Reformed

Near the beginning of Paul Schrader’s 2019 drama First Reformed, the troubled protagonist Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), finds himself engaged in a life-altering debate with a climate activist...
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 Our Battle

January 27, 2021, was an ordinary morning that turned into a nightmare when FBI agents rolled up at my doorstep at 7 a.m. Before I knew it, I was facing the reality of a funny joke on social media spiraling into a fight for my life...
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 Always in the Arena

Fifty years ago this week, Richard Nixon became the only US president in history to resign from office. His departure was the climax of the Watergate scandal, a multi-year controversy that consumed the 37th president and several high-ranking officials and resulted in 69 indictments and 48 convictions...
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 Guns Out

As scores of vehicles filled with armed men and women began to pull up outside a small wooden building in a remote corner of South Carolina, the darkness of night still ruled the skies. The vehicles’ occupants were not prepared for the gale force winds and the bitter frost of an unseasonably cold day as they exited the safety of vehicles...
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