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.
Ideas mattered to the Great Books movement
Plot and conflict beg for resolution
Las Vegas is America, too
Secularists and Americanists are putting their trust in the wrong place
Reason goes to the sidelines in American politics
In the ballroom it's all about leading and following
Often-lucrative alternatives to the four-year degree abound
Obama offers more of what hasn't worked in education policy
In America, the institutional church has become the counterculture
