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by | Oct 16, 2023

The Dictionary People: The Unsung People Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie (Knopf, 384 pages, $30) Sarah Ogilvie…

by | Oct 11, 2023

The hardest part about being an explorer isn’t always the exploration — it’s coming back home. That was evidently true…

by | Sep 29, 2023

Lessons are either considered and then taken or ignored and dismissed. The elite of the ’60s generation has, above all,…

by | Sep 27, 2023

With Federal Bureau of Investigation whistleblowers regularly informing Congress about agency abuses, it is difficult to remember that the FBI…

by | Sep 20, 2023

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich led the Republican Party to victory in 1994, when the GOP took back…

by | Sep 13, 2023

Russia has changed little over the past 400 years. Yes, Russians now drive cars instead of oxcarts, but from a…

by | Sep 5, 2023

A beggar’s book outworths a noble’s blood. —Henry VIII, Act I, Scene I Above the piano in our living room…

by | Sep 1, 2023

A 12-year-old student in Colorado was kicked out of class for sporting a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. The…

by | Aug 15, 2023

At the dawn of the 20th century, China’s goal was to be recognized by the West as an equal. So,…

by | Aug 8, 2023

In the 1930s, New York City was at the height of its heyday. Its population was booming, the world was…

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