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Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, The Big Ripoff, and Obamanomics. ....
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America," wrote French-American historian Jacques Barzun in 1954, "had better learn baseball." More than any other sport, America's national pastime reflects its national character. ....
If it seemed to you after COVID that the pews were never as full as they had been before, you weren’t imagining things. The public goes to church less these days than it did pre-pandemic. ....
“We don’t hold these institutions to nearly high enough standards on pragmatic output,” outgoing Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told me in an interview the last week of December. He was talking about the institutions he is entering academic institutions but he could have been talking about the one he is exiting: Congress. ....