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Thursday, March 31, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 31, 2022 "Divisive Concepts Bill: Who Is Actually Being Divisive?"

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A Liberal Dose March 31, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Divisive Concepts” Bill: Who Is Being Divisive?   Conservatives around the country have been tw...
Friday, March 25, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 24, 2022 "World Gone Mad: What Can We Do About It?"

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  A Liberal Dose March 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith World Gone Mad: What Can We Do About It?   Several people have responded to my colum...
Friday, March 18, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 17, 2022 "It Feels Like the Whole World Has Gone Crazy"

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  A Liberal Dose March 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith “It Feels Like the World Has Gone Crazy”   The world seems to be getting crazier eve...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 3, 2022 "Russia's Aggression and Journey to Fascism"

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A Liberal Dose March 3, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Russia’s Aggression and Journey to Fascism”   Most of the world watched in horror this...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Feb. 24, 2022 "Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court"

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  A Liberal Dose February 24, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court”   People who are terrified by crit...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Feb. 17, 2022 "History Is Still the Key to Everything- Don't Lose It"

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  A Liberal Dose February 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith “History Is Still the Key to Everything -Don’t Lose It”   Next week will mark one...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Feb. 10, 2022 "Why Taking Maus out of Middle School Does Matter"

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  A Liberal Dose February 10, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Why Taking Maus Out of Middle School Matters”   Last week I talked about the co...
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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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