The New York Times is concerned about censorship in American schools. “Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.” reads Sunday’s…
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Once a brutal dictatorship, Taiwan is now one of the world’s most vibrant democracies, having received a Global Freedom Score…
Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will…
Before getting to the “hole” in RFK Jr.’s new book, I would like to say that his brutal smackdown of…
When I was a kid, the stories had normal plots. You know, an idiot wolf, a girl one fry short…
