Commentary
American know-how and technology are in trouble these days.
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Opinion
Want a Standard for American Excellence? Look No Further Than the Dixie Cup
I propose making the humble Dixie Cup, this marvel of workmanship and serviceability, a standard of excellence in our institutions and our daily lives.
Take-away coffee cups are displayed alongside a coffee machine in Sydney on April 20, 2010. Greg Wood/AFP via Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
