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A scented millionaire shall not want

A friend of mine told me that when he was younger, he misheard the word “centimillionaire” and thought it was “scented millionaire.” As misunderstandings...

Wrestling and the recreation of cable

Fifteen years ago, the world of streaming used to be a simple place. You could pay $9.99 a month to Netflix or Hulu and...

Bomber boys

When HBO debuted Band of Brothers in 2001, it was an event — prestige television’s answer to the question, “What if Saving Private Ryan...

How the world changed beneath I.S.S.

The premise of I.S.S. is intriguing. Six astronauts on the International Space Station, three American and three Russian, watch in horror as the world...

Lucky Jim at 70 and the long decline of the university

There have been several farcical fictional treatments of university life in the United States over the past couple of decades. The 2021 Netflix series...

James Lee Burke’s short fiction is no literary crime

Certain readers consider themselves guardians of the canon and refuse to class crime stories as literature, filing these books away out of sight in...

Repealing the SALT deduction cap would force the working class to fund sanctuary cities

Though voters elected Republicans to the House majority in the last congressional elections, since the start of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) revolt against the...

The nitty-gritty of freedom

America’s on-the-ground decision-makers have their hands tied. Teachers lack the authority to run their classrooms, and their superintendents lack the authority to manage them....

Rachmaninoff far from home

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works...

The millennial failure to launch

More than 15% of millennials lived with their parents in 2022, according to the latest figures from the Census Bureau. That is an 87%...
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