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Words Without Consequence

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National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage

The Unique Resilience of Iran’s Theocracy

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

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Rubio’s Silk-Stocking Diplomacy

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Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

“Good politics, like good art, does not lecture or declaim. It strains; it argues; it is an unending negotiation with the difficult and intransigent adventure of humanity”

A new lens on humanity

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’

Secretary Noem Takes it On The Chin

Find One

Open Thread

Serious side effects dim hopes for the first chikungunya vaccine

Al-Ghazali – The Reviver of Religious Sciences

The Monstrous Appetite of Japanese Giant Salamanders