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by | Dec 20, 2021

Like many people my age (62), I was taught both at home and in school that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was…

by | Dec 17, 2021

It was an exceptionally dark night in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and I was riding in a car crawling down a…

by | Dec 9, 2021

When you walk the Fredericksburg battlefield, especially near the stone wall at the base of Mayre’s Heights (which is just…

by | Nov 19, 2021

Fans of John Keats (1795–1821) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) have a reason to celebrate. Esteemed Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan…

by | Nov 18, 2021

Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza….

by | Aug 4, 2021

The International Olympic Committee has a penchant for choosing genocidal and repressive regimes as hosts for the Olympics and then…

by | Jul 22, 2021

In 1999, I practiced complex civil business litigation at the Los Angeles offices of one of the 10 most prominent…

by | Jun 3, 2021

Six former U.S. education secretaries, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, are sounding the alarm about the grave…

by | May 27, 2021

Memorial Day tasks us with remembering. The age of the imposter demands that we forget. Four years ago, this writer,…

by | Apr 7, 2021

Churchill & Son Josh Ireland (Dutton, 464 pages, $34) Despite an inauspicious beginning, Churchill & Son is a thoughtful study…

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