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by | Jul 9, 2026

Conventional wisdom holds that communism fell with the Berlin Wall. Results from the recent primaries in New York City suggest…

by | Jun 28, 2026

If modern feminism’s premises are correct, this should be a moment of unmistakable triumph. Since the second-wave pioneer Betty Friedan…

by | Jun 22, 2026

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson By Robert Demaria, Jr. and Dan Hitchens Cambridge University Press, 163 pages, $49 One…

by | May 23, 2026

What do fantastic tales have to do with the survival of our civilization?  The world that plunged from one World…

by | May 16, 2026

Reading aloud has become an act of punk rebellion. Something like listening to a recording of The Clash, flirting in…

by | Apr 4, 2026

Though last week’s article began talking about ancient tales of conflict, it didn’t deliver. Time to pick that thread up,…

by | Mar 20, 2026

Sometimes, after reading that hash of mendacity and advocacy called the news, spattered with the opinions of people who cannot…

by | Feb 27, 2026

I have recently seen a study showing how badly English literature has fallen from its old, prominent place in the…

by | Feb 20, 2026

Eighty years ago, George Orwell made his first impact on American letters, interestingly enough, not with his bombshell attack on…

by | Jan 9, 2026

On a social media site the other day, someone posted a single sentence to the effect that he’d tried once…

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