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February 14, 2026

Why I’m Done with Notre Dame

I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left. After twenty years on the faculty, I could no longer do Notre. The post Why I’m Done with Notre Dame appeared first on First Things

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🌍 Geopolitics
February 14, 2026

Don’t Trade Away America for Some Soybeans

The cliché holds that China plans in decades while America plans in election cycles. Increasingly, though, our thinking seems to stop even sooner—around the length of a crop cycle. Not as an agricultural policy, but as a governing instinct. Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately […] The post Don’t Trade Away America for Some Soybeans appeared first on The American Conservative

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