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Benjamin J. Kirby

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Latest Issues

Maybe Now is the Time for Mandatory National Service

I am old enough to have been at the forefront of political campaigns that needed a fairly newfangled technology called “websites”. Remember those?

This past week, a candidate named Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate...

9 days ago
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When We Choose Violence

We grew up solidly middle-class. My Little Rock readers will know what I mean when I say we were Hillcrest kids, not the Heights. For St. Petersburg readers, think maybe Tyrone instead of Old Northeast or Jungle Prada.

Still, we had manage...

16 days ago

This Election Season, I Ask Your Vote

You can see it there, can’t you? The end of summer. In the distance still, yes. Barely visible through the rising shimmer of heat, the glare of July’s brilliant, blazing sun. August looms before us like a threat. The promise of fall remains...

23 days ago

On the Narrow Road

If you’re reading this, know that me and the kids are cruising on the open road, on our summer vacation journey, likely about a third of the way to the City of New Orleans. Why go to New Orleans for a vacation in the middle of summer? Becau...

a month ago
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An Independence Day Pre-Vacation Hodge Podge

Happy 250th birthday, America.

“Flag" by Jasper Johns, 1954-1955. I keep a print of this hung over my desk. The original is worth seeing in person when you go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The detail is extraordinary, fasc...

a month ago

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