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K.E. Colombini

K.E. Colombini writes from St. Louis, Mo. He has been published in First Things, The American Conservative, the Washington Examiner, the National Catholic Register and elsewhere.

Articles by K.E. Colombini

The Glories of Small Towns

Small towns not only engender local and national patriotism, but they also create the conditions for the arts to flourish.
March 12, 2026

The Maps of Our Lives Point Homeward

Older and wiser, I have long learned that for all the times I wanted to visit far-away places, there is no place like home.
February 6, 2025

This Valetudinarian World

Valetudinarianism connects arguments about the pandemic and the climate, with, on the one side, a distrust of experts and politicians, and, on the other, the belief that science (however defined)…
October 29, 2021

Home, Revisited

The pandemic has provided an opportunity to recenter our lives around home and family
December 16, 2020