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The Other American ‘Popes’

Happy Saturday, everyone! School is out for summer, it’s the beginning of pool season, yard sales, and summer camps. And whatever our post-Musk(?) Summer brings, we’ll bring you what you need to know.

Our sold-out events in Chicago and Nashville were fantastic. Thank you to all who came, and took the time to chat with us at one of our Founder’s events or at the post-show meet and greets. The pleasure was all ours.

For your summer music playlist… Sam Fender live at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

The Trump administration just kicked its war on free speech into overdrive Over the past few days, members of Trump’s Cabinet threatened or imposed censorship in at least a half-dozen different ways, writes Anthony L. Fisher at MSNBC.

Jay Nordlinger’s… Oslo Journal. (Be sure to read parts 2 and 3)

American Life Is Wonderful. People Just Spend Too Much Time Online. Today’s spiritual crisis isn’t about society failing to give us meaning. It’s about asking it to do what it never could, observes Ben Dreyfuss.

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