Culture

Sometimes You Just Lose

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

There’s a silence after the call ends, after the scoreboard freezes, after the last box is checked. It doesn’t say, “You’ll bounce back.” It doesn’t whisper, “You’ll rise stronger....

Discipline: The Forgotten Virtue

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

A meditation on restraint, mastery, and the art of living deliberately There’s a sound to discipline. It’s the rasp of a blade being sharpened before dawn. The soft creak of ...

An Open Letter to Mrs. Jean Shine

Culture Feature | By Ollie Mintz

Central Texas lost one of its great servants this week, and I lost one of mine. Mrs. Jean Shine, Civilian Aide Emeritus to the Secretary of the Army and one of the most respecte...

Kings Without Crowns

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

A meditation on gratitude, progress, and the paradox of plenty A hundred years ago, kings died from infections we treat with a pill. Queens froze in castles we now heat with a b...

Faith, Hope, and Love

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

A meditation for the agnostic, the believer, and everyone in between Governments rise and fall, systems fail, leaders disappoint. But faith, hope, and love — whether you believe...

You Want to Know What Happiness Is?

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

You want to know what happiness is? I’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not a commercial with a couple on a beach holding hands while a stock piano track swells in the background....

Louder Isn’t Leading

Culture Feature | By Nicholas Molinelli

Democracy doesn’t break in silence. It erodes, one argument at a time, until listening is replaced with shouting, and shouting with cheering. And when it finally collapses, it won’...