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Senator Sasse’s Moving Senate Speech

[featured-image link=”http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4558256/senator-ben-sasse-maiden-senate-floor-speech” link_single=”http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4558256/senator-ben-sasse-maiden-senate-floor-speech” single_newwindow=”true” alt=”Senator Ben Sasse. Link goes to the video of his maiden speech in the Senate.”] Public Policy Leadership alumn Elliott Warren kindly sent me a link to this maiden address from Senator Ben Sasse, Junior Senator from Nebraska (R). It was an incredibly kind compliment for Elliott to say that this Senator’s speech…

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Delusions of Genocide & the Real Thing

On returning home from Germany, I was startled to hear a voicemail from a white supremacist campaigning for President. It repeated the old trope that there is a genocide being perpetrated on the white race. In the United States, we often throw around words like “Nazi” and “genocide.” Seinfeld’s funny “Soup Nazi” story is one thing, but ridiculous…

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Marveling at Human Potential, Part 2

One of the remarkable things rarely considered among average museum-goers is the somewhat unbelievable fact that nations in the Western world have gone to places like Egypt and taken out of sacred and historical landmarks beautiful cultural treasures. It is true that archaeologists get permits. It is true that the explorer who found Tutankhamun’s tomb…

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Processing Our Dachau Concentration Camp Visit

I’ll write more about this soon. I’m still processing what we saw there. It was harshly jarring for my sense of what human beings are capable of doing – not one or a few troubling individuals, but a coordinated secret police force. Truly sobering. The experience was visceral. The gate door to the camp reads…

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Marveling at Human Potential, Part 1

It is easy today to find examples of things that are simply marvels of human invention and brilliance. The everyday cellphone today is a pretty amazing instrument, considering all that one can do. This past week, I had a chance to see an exhibit of replicas of the items that were found in the tomb…

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What a Flag Has to Do with Justice

The June 2015 murders in Charleston, South Carolina, have prompted a remarkable cultural shift in the American South. States around the region are removing or are voting to remove Confederate symbols of various kinds from public spaces. South Carolina and Alabama have made significant moves, and in Mississippi, the Speaker of the House and both…

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Sometimes Heritage Does Harm

This article was published online with the title “Sometimes Heritage Does Harm,” and in print, with the title “‘Heritage’ Argument Overlooks History.” It is republished here with permission. Click on the image or here to open a scan of the printed version, or here for a PDF of the online version. The text from the online…

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Senator Sasse’s Moving Senate Speech

Delusions of Genocide & the Real Thing

Marveling at Human Potential, Part 2

Processing Our Dachau Concentration Camp Visit

Marveling at Human Potential, Part 1

What a Flag Has to Do with Justice

Sometimes Heritage Does Harm

Lyra Everglen

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