Janie is a senior writer who contributes commentary to WORLD and oversees WORLD’s annual Children’s Books of the Year awards. She also writes novels for young adults and authored the Wordsmith creative writing curriculum. Janie resides in rural Missouri.
The demonization of mere opponents is a dangerous practice
National Endowment for the Arts takes propaganda to a new level
There are more reasons than fear why children don't come out to play
New movement aims to take campus radicalism beyond the classroom
The space program's human focus led to its much-lamented decay
Are the shocking events in Tender Morsels really for young adults?
Image projection is a very poor second for connection
Society mindlessly denigrates the 'work of our hands'
Government funding for research is bound to come with bias