by Michael Leppert | Mar 27, 2025 | Pop/Life
Henry Reider is a young man from Sierra Leone who recently and miraculously survived tuberculosis. Using the words “recently” and “miraculously” to describe his recovery from a disease that has had a preventive vaccine since 1921 and a cure since 1943 is reason enough...
by Michael Leppert | Jul 10, 2024 | Politics/Government
As a new adjunct professor six years ago, the class I was asked to teach was titled “Public law and government relations.” It was a class designed to teach how ideas become laws. The students were public affairs majors, just like I was, thirty years earlier. ...
by Michael Leppert | Oct 19, 2023 | Politics/Government
It occurred on February 19, 1942, following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan two months earlier. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, “with the stated intention of preventing espionage on American shores.” What the order actually did...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 18, 2022 | Politics/Government
I haven’t written about the former president in a few months. Frankly, it’s just not all that interesting any more. I have found it is more interesting to write about people who still think he is interesting. I expect there will be more than enough written...
by Michael Leppert | Dec 24, 2021 | Pop/Life
“I may be old, and I may be young, but I am not done changing,” sings John Mayer in 2017’s, “Changing.” Let’s pretend for a few minutes that this song is being sung by America. Mayer is one of my favorite musicians, but I have...
