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Witness to the Great Unsettling
The poet Marianne Moore is credited with describing what poets do as "the art of creating…
A Founding Document Finds Its Principles
Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840–1920 covers a period…
The Long and Winding Remix
You don't often get a new Beatles album. But you often get an old one. The Beatles released 12…
Ted’s Excellent Adventures
It cannot be said that Theodore Roosevelt has suffered from historical neglect. Harvard's…
Rushdie on Death and Dying (While Remaining Alive and…
Through no fault of his own, the author Sir Salman Rushdie has become the English-speaking world’s…
The Price of the Party at Barneys
To become a man in the Jewish tradition, a 13-year-old boy must have a bar mitzvah, a puberty rite…
Aldrich Ames and the Enemy Within
I had a friend, a Soviet-East Europe Division case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency who…
Tolstoy’s Last Novel
Leo Tolstoy is the greatest writer in the Western world—greater, yes, than Shakespeare, Dante,…
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