As he began experiencing his 40s, cerebral Washington journalist Jonathan Rauch wasn’t happy. He wasn’t unhappy, exactly, and he certainly wasn’t clinically depressed. It’s just that he thought...
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A seasonal report on the Trump presidency had better begin with a disclaimer. Anything one says is sure to be displaced by some entirely... Read More
One of the nice things about a core curriculum—sadly disappearing from most of higher education—is that it forces you to read... Read More
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Why should I let the toad work / Squat on my life? Philip Larkin asked this in 1954, just before he applied for, and got, the job of... Read More
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Asked fifty or one hundred years ago, Americans would have identified Thomas Jefferson as a great hero, perhaps the great... Read More
t's hard to imagine, at this distance, how it must have been to be Aristotle in his own time: cutting-edge rather than foundational. We see... Read More
"As of this evening,” said Pierre Moscovici in Luxembourg in June, “the Greek crisis is over.” Moscovici, a French... Read More
Open-source intelligence is the art of learning things by procuring and analysing unclassified (if not always very accessible) evidence.... Read More
Howdy, partner. I promise you no one says that in the 1,056 pages of The Border Trilogy, which feature the tribulations of some rather... Read More
As he began experiencing his 40s, cerebral Washington journalist Jonathan Rauch wasn’t happy. He wasn’t unhappy, exactly, and he certainly wasn’t clinically depressed. It’s just that he thought...
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A book by Jonathan Israel is, from the conclusion, about the United States and its occasional anti-Enlightenment mood swings... Read More
“I am glad you've read the Heart of D. tho' of course it's an awful fudge,” Joseph Conrad wrote to Roger Casement in late 1903. Casement, an Irish diplomat working for the British Foreign Office, had just returned to London from Belgium's African colony, the Congo Free State, and was about to submit a report to Parliament detailing the existence of a vast system of slavery used to extract ivor Read More
