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Making Magic: Review of ‘The Master of Contradictions’ by Morten Høi Jensen

Books on the politics of literary works can go wrong in at least two ways: They can reduce the significance of a literary work...

Peter Matthiessen, mystical Renaissance man

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, teacher, world traveler, CIA agent, and...

Rick Steves and the closing of the travel frontier

For Americans of a certain age and income bracket, Europe is synonymous with Rick Steves, a one-man travel impresario whose guidebooks and tour groups...

The long shadow of the federalist debates

“While I am a Jeffersonian in my genuine faith in democracy and popular government,” President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I am a Hamiltonian in...

Pass-Fail

“How are your grades?” My father asked me, nearly 43 years ago, when I was home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. In many...

As an immigrant, I love Thanksgiving

In 2013, I moved to the United States from the United Kingdom, and in the years since, I’ve learned that there are really two...

Ukraine must recognize it will likely have to keep fighting

“Soul and body shall we lay down for our liberty,” the Ukrainian anthem says. That line echoed through Kyiv in 2022 as Russia tried...

America’s audacious aspirations

“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves,” President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in January 1981 during his first...

Dick Cheney: Always unintimidated

The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career,...

No, Los Angeles still hasn’t rebuilt homes lost in January wildfires

It has been 10 months since the wildfires in Los Angeles ended. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have been...
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