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Election Day! A great day, and often a brutal one. What can we do about it? Libby commented on my…

Sometimes the historical moment can be caught precisely and economically by music. (And other times not. See a long list…

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As the COVID-19 pandemic controls the airwaves and the minds of millions of Americans, one resilient community is coming together…

In his flagship work, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom writes, “It is in the nature of democracy…

Algerian singer Hamid Cheriet, better known as Idir, a major interpreter of Berber music, died in Paris last week at…

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I decided to skip a performance by my favorite group at the very ballpark where I worked to pay for tickets…

A “substantial security problem” and “tools for espionage” are not accusations one might normally expect to be leveled against a…