Opinion
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Column: Words that help us maintain the fabric of society
Sometimes I feel like words have lost their meaning in our society. In fact, right there is a terrific example; “society.” Hasn’t that word lost its meaning these days, or am I missing something?
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Commentary: Runoff won’t be a choice between like-minded candidates in South Dakota
No matter your political affiliation, it has to be acknowledged that Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden has accomplished something incredible. Without ever having held elected office or ever having run a political campaign, he bested an incumbent governor and benched a congressman.
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Column: This soccer fan boycotting this year’s World Cup
I have devoted my career to soccer. I teach a college course on Soccer & Global Politics. I’ve conducted research in 35 countries on the social dimensions of the people’s game. I truly believe soccer is the closest thing that the secular world has to a universal religion.
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Our Voice: Readers, let’s keep hearing from you
As The Brookings Register continues moving into the future, under new ownership and with a new publisher at the helm, consider the words of classic American folk singer, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan: “… the times they are a changing.” And the feedback we’re getting…
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Column: Founding fathers did not want a national religion
On May 15, The Brookings Register Published a Speakout column entitled “We must pay heed to our Christian heritage’ by Bernie Hendricks. Once again, Hendricks attacks the Reverends Kline and Ort as “having repeatedly charged that our founding fathers positively intended for secular humanism to be the foundational standard in…
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Column: You can’t say Madison didn’t warn us
James Madison’s prescient warning about a president who engineers a scheme of deep-seated and pervasive corruption, grounded in self-dealing to enrich himself and strengthen his ties to law-breaking loyalists through arbitrary acts that violate the Constitution and republican principles, resonates across the nation at this juncture in our history as…
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Column: What are the secrets to a long-lasting marriage?
I’m writing this on our wedding anniversary. I’m not saying how many years we’ve been married. That may enable people to figure out my age. You know, the older people get, the less seriously they are taken. I’d like to be taken at least as seriously as our 100-year-old friend…
