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The day the Chernobyl Museum burned

The first sound At 5 a.m. on May 24, employees at Kyiv’s Chernobyl Museum heard the thud of what was almost certainly an Iskander missile. In...

A narrator speaking to his dead beloved

“Amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare” (“Love moved me, which makes me speak”). So declares Virgil to Dante at the outset of The...

Crooks and communists in James Ellroy’s latest epic

James Ellroy is one of the great American authors of the last 50 years, and yet, it is easy to dismiss his literary achievement....

Democrats are literally the party of crazy people

Crazy is, admittedly, a bit of a pejorative term. But as a new study published by Political Behavior shows, not only have the negative...

Hunter the snark

It’s hard to keep a good man down, but it’s even harder to keep a bad man out. Hunter Biden is back. Best known...

The decision to ban flag burning belongs to the people

Nearly 250 years after the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution establishing the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States,...

Harold Bloom and his poet-correspondents

It was easy to admire Harold Bloom. One of the most distinguished American literary critics, he always gave the impression of having read anything...

Go tell the Spartans: Two books on the conflicts that embroiled the Greek world

The late Southern writer Florence King once lamented that “a cornerstone of Western thought that has vanished without a trace is admiration for ancient...

From upgrades to upsells

In the old days — we’re talking about the 2010s here — when you boarded a plane, and glanced with envy or disdain at...

America 250: US’s uniquely common culture is worth celebrating

Over 100 years ago, German sociologist Werner Sombart famously asked, “Why is there no socialism in the United States?” For Sombart, the answer was...
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