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Take the win?

Win the battle, lose the war. On April 1, Israel did the civilized world a favor by hitting an Iranian terrorist conclave in Damascus, Syria....

Deliverance walked so these ‘scholarly efforts’ could run

Yes, Herman Melville sold a lot of books before he died, but it was his Typee, an account of “life among the savages,” that captured...

What was virtue to the founders?

Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the...

Reviewed: Woody Allen’s newest film, Coup de Chance

When Woody Allen talks about the directors he seeks to emulate, imitate, or merely copy from, the names he is likely to mention are...

What Orwell had against pigs

Several animals emerge with no credit whatsoever from Animal Farm. Benjamin the donkey is a case-hardened pessimist, as stolidly indifferent to conditions under the...

Robert Downey Jr. can’t save The Sympathizer 

HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet...

Thank God! It’s the National Guard

William Long graduated high school in 2011 and, like many, regrets missing the high military deployment days of the mid-2000s. He might not have...

California splits the salmon

Nothing is quite as Californian as the lose-lose policymaking of hamstringing oneself for a pointless cause and failing in that cause anyway. California’s water policy...

Guys like us

“Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone...

The lonely grind

The largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and...
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