Border-Stalkers

Weekly News Roundup - 11/14/25

Longest government shutdown ends // Trump struggles to grapple with affordability crisis // Epstein reemerges

Nov 14 • 

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October 2025

What Does a Post-Literate Culture Look Like?

I guess we'll find out

Published on You Are Not Your Own Substack • Oct 3

May 2025

The Lights that Shine in the Darkness

Something ain't right.

May 4 • 

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March 2025

My conversation with Jonathan Rauch about his new book "Cross Purposes"

I wrote about Jonathan Rauch's book a month ago.

Mar 22 • 

Jon Ward

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February 2025

Jonathan Rauch is trying to keep us from backsliding into a pre-Enlightenment world

Rauch's project over two books is in some sense to preserve an Enlightenment-based society in which we kill hypotheses instead of one another

Feb 11 • 

Jon Ward

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January 2025

From the Archives: The Haunting Memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

He is not a "plaster saint"

Jan 20 • 

Jon Ward

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December 2024

Jimmy Carter was the model of a Christian President

He knew that faith and political power are a dangerous combination, and sought to combine them with humility, restraint and prudence. Then he returned…

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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November 2024

We Will Have to Forgive One Another After Election Day, and Then Do Better

There are some unhealthy reasons and some legitimate reasons why our hopes and fears are tied up in today's result. The key is how we respond.

Nov 5, 2024 • 

Jon Ward

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October 2024

How do you start a church but think it's not actually a church?

Eliza Griswold's new book Circle of Hope is a familiar story of placing too much hope in ... church

Oct 9, 2024 • 

Jon Ward

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Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. He is the only U.S. president to ever do that.

It's just one more evidence of the deep determination in a man that most people miss

Oct 1, 2024 • 

Jon Ward

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September 2024

‘There Will Be Music Despite Everything’: A Tribute to Neil King Jr.

The author of "American Ramble" was a magnetic force who changed those around him

Sep 25, 2024 • 

Jon Ward

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Why Orwell's "1984" is not the right book for understanding our times

Neil Postman saw the threat as coming from our own mental depletion due to our amusements and distractions

Sep 3, 2024 • 

Jon Ward

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