Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Lion. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Culture
‘Seeing the Supernatural’: New book offers stunning glimpse into spirit world, new hope for unmoored world

Amid the playful affair of Halloween, a most earnest and momentous question about spiritual manifestations: Is it just possible some phenomena in this often drifting, directionless, depraved physical plain are… Read More

October 22, 2025
Public Education
Kansas school board candidate decries Charlie Kirk’s ‘White Christian Nationalism’ on day of remembrance

As Donald Trump awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk Tuesday, a Kansas City-area school board candidate decried the slain patriot as a promoter of “White Christian… Read More

October 14, 2025
Culture
Civil Society conference to explore vital American renewal ahead of country’s 250th

French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville famously cited early-American philanthropy as a unique strength of the young republic. These many years later, American altruism is an even greater strength – a… Read More

October 14, 2025
Opinion
Op-ed: Democrats’ rabid attacks on immigration enforcement a sign of America at war

The uniforms are pinstripes, not camouflage, the battlefields being courtrooms not hillsides. But there’s a war on for control of this country. … It also happens to be the first… Read More

October 1, 2025
Public Education
Kansas school district prohibits staff from wearing Charlie Kirk-style ‘FREEDOM’ shirts

A Kansas City-area elementary school has forbidden staff from wearing Charlie Kirk-style “FREEDOM” shirts. In an email exchange with a concerned citizen that has since been posted on the… Read More

October 1, 2025