By GREG MARKLEY Last week, I stayed at Lackland Air Force Base, where AF recruits go for basic training. The newspaper JBSA Legacy had a curious headline: “Signature block pronouns now allowed for Airmen, Guardians.” The Air Force writing guide now allows personnel to...

By GREG MARKLEY The Name of the Wind (2007) is a novel by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s focus is wizardry and a young man’s coming of age. Rothfuss is a fantasy writer from Wisconsin. One of his quotes is: “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power,...

By GREG MARKLEY It was the first day of class at a public university, and the professor duly handed out copies of the syllabus, informally called the “roadmap” for the course. We were told to glance over it. This was to see how we felt about the course: Would it be...

By GREG MARKLEY At 7:09 EST on June 14, 2017, shots rang out at a baseball stadium in Alexandria, Virginia, in a case of domestic terrorism. That morning, 24 Republican congressmen were practicing for a charity game against Democrats. Six people were injured, most...