A recent episode of the rebooted X-Files affixes a question mark to its “I want to believe” tagline. “The Lost…
One key to understanding much of the bewildering behavior we see around us is to recognize the power and popularity…
Why spend money and reading time on two older gents kvetching in Where Were We? That’s easy. Because you’re unlikely to find more amusing kvetching anywhere in print than in this compendium of email correspondence between two men of letters, one in America, the other in England. It’s a follow-on of the equally entertaining, Distant Intimacy, published by Yale University Press in 2013 and still available.
“Intersectionality” is a trendy word in feminist theory that bids us to examine events and conditions in relation to one…
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To be a leader is to be an educator, Aristotle taught, appropriately. Lead in thought, lead in government, teach. Which…
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The editorial board of USA Today on Thursday published its decidedly bearish take on the prospects of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway,…
In 1972, Charles Cole was a 20-something American embarking on an ideological odyssey: a tour of duty through the USSR as a Russian-speaking guide for a cultural-exchange exhibit sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. Trained at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Cole jumped at the chance to serve his nation abroad with his skills. These exhibits were powerful in educating Soviet citizens about the freedoms in America that their totalitarian government lied about unceasingly. As for the U.S. government’s investment in this program, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote that he couldn’t imagine a “better-leveraged” use of tax dollars.
