This Just In: It’s Complicated
This Just In – What used to be fairly simple is now anything but that. Up front, I must disclose that I have a positive view of law enforcement.
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Little Big Moments: Choice Words
The talk of the town is that the students are back! As much as I enjoy the slower pace of summer, the students bring energy and life. They fill the sidewalks and the streets. They walk, bike, and ride scooters. I catch flashes of their smiles and hear snatches of their conversations.
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Holding Court: Belichick’s NFL-Style Branding May Begin With Minimal Pro Talent
North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick and his general manager, Mike Lombardi, have attracted national headlines for many reasons, including their creative branding of the Tar Heels’ program as the “33rd NFL franchise.”
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: UBI and Privilege?
The past couple of shows I’ve been challenging my joyful and deeply held optimistic view of the natural human condition with research that reveals how we all quickly become blind to and blinded by our privileges—existing in a state of privilege inevitably distorts our views of how we got there and how we act, often radically.
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One on One: Can People Like Us Go Home Again?
Here’s a trivia question: Name a novel by a North Carolina writer about a fictional author who traveled abroad and struggled with returning to the complexities of American culture?
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This Just In: America’s Got This
This Just In – In a Birmingham Alabama church a terrible thing happened and a beautiful, inspiring thing came behind it.
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Little Big Moments: Lessons from Afghanistan
My family and I shared a potluck dinner at church with my friend from Afghanistan. Attempting to engage his two young children, I asked, “What’s your favorite animal?”
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Holding Court: ACC Quarterbacks Projected as NFL Starters
The first full week of National Football League preseason games, which concluded Sunday night, offered a reminder of the professional league’s heavy Atlantic Coast Conference flavor, especially at the most important position on the field.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Populism and Privilege
Last week’s show introduced the challenges of Privilege. I am an ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’ populist in my heart and soul.
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Past Rhymes With Present Times: A Nation of Immigrants in the ICE Age
The most important civic descriptions of American identity affirm the beliefs in human equality and democratic self-government that shaped the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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