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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%...

Black History’s Heroes Series: Bass Reeves

Until recently, the story of Bass Reeves lived in relative anonymity. He was born into slavery in Arkansas in 1838 and went on to...

Republicans are going broke, and they can’t blame it on Bidenomics

Donald Trump’s presidency may have seen a good economy for most people, but his candidacy has the GOP in a financial sinkhole. The Republican National...

Donald Trump is right to court the Teamsters union

When former President Donald Trump walked into the headquarters of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday, he became the first Republican presidential candidate...

DeSantis is no traitor

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) candidacy for president of the United States lasted just shy of eight months. For the most part, he remained solidly...
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