Is artificial intelligence going to replace us? I posed this question to a recent panel discussion, co-sponsored by Emporia’s Current Club and the Emporia State University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, called “A Poet, a Pastor, a Philosopher, and a Programmer.” Kevin Rabas ...

This Easter week, I’ve been thinking about the 70% of Kansans who identify as Christians (one of whom is me), and how their — that is, our — influence on this state has changed. When most people think about the impact of Christian voters, they imagine a whole range of specific political ...

If you were traveling through Kansas over spring break and wanted to show the kids something they’ll likely never see again, you might swing by Cawker City’s World’s Largest Ball of Twine or to Lucas for the Garden of Eden. Or maybe those giant sandstone spheres near Minneapolis (a ...

Across Kansas, lawmakers have advanced a series of policies that directly threaten students’ First Amendment rights—policies that should alarm anyone who cares about democracy, civic participation, and the development of informed citizens. Most recently, the Kansas Senate attached a ...

For years, it advanced slowly, almost unnoticed. It wasn’t advertised at freshman orientations or highlighted in admission brochures. Yet it’s everywhere, in classrooms, resident halls, even in the quad where students gather. Over the past five decades, men have steadily disappeared ...

In last month’s column, I took policymakers to task for forgetting former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax-cutting experiment, which cratered state revenues. School funding cuts landed the state in court. Kansas also borrowed over $1 billion from the state highway fund (the “Bank of ...