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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

A Liberal Dose, January 7, 2026 "Have You No Sense of Decency?"

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A LIBERAL DOSE, January 7, 2026 "Have You No Sense of Decency?" Troy D. Smith Five years ago. Five years ago saw the Capital storm...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

A Liberal Dose, October 5, 2025 "Free Should the Scholar Be, Free and Brave"

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 A Liberal Dose, October 5, 2025  "Free Should the Scholar Be, Free and Brave" Troy D. Smith ]\ ' Every fall since 2012 (excep...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

A Liberal Dose, September 23, 2025 "Why Are They All So Angry?"

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  Welcome to my first blog in my post-newspaper career. As many of you know, my regular column -and the whole opinion page -was ended recent...
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Thursday, September 18, 2025

A Liberal Dose, September 16, 2025 "Final Newspaper Column"

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 A Liberal Dose "Final Newspaper Column" Troy D. Smith I started writing my "Liberal Dose" column in the Sparta Exposito...
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A Liberal Dose, Sept. 5, 2025 “American Carnage -But Only in Blue States”

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  A Liberal Dose “American Carnage -But Only in Blue States” Troy D. Smith   Last October, on the first of two trips I took to the C...
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A Liberal Dose, August 15, 2025 “Neville Chamberlain and the Appeasing of Dictators”

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  A Liberal Dose “Neville Chamberlain and the Appeasing of Dictators” Troy D. Smith   I was only nine years old when my uncle Edgar ...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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