Peerage Pressure
Every society has an aristocracy, even those that deny or disparage the very idea, such as our own.…
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Naughty by Nature?
It is hard to read any article or book about what ails children today without encountering a…
Chosen to Make America’s Toys
The People of the Book, it turns out, are also the people of the Teddy Bear, Barbie, and Batman. As…
Sympathy for the Gavin
Unprincipled triangulation and a stained blue dress notwithstanding, one of Bill Clinton’s more…
This Emperor Had Clothes
History has been kind to Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome from 161-180 A.D. Born to a patrician…
Don’t Fork It Over Yet
Between remembering and forgetting, treasuring and tossing out, feeling without sentimentalizing……
Always in Front of the Servants
Paul Burrell was a footman to Queen Elizabeth II from 1976 to 1987, and then an eyewitness to the…
Crime and the Criminologists
Since its inception as an academic discipline, criminology has concerned itself first and foremost…
A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious
Ever wonder what the six teeth on all Venetian gondolas signify? (The six districts of Venice.) Or…
Kicking and Screaming Against America and Israel
In the 1970s, after the Six-Day War had time to sink in, an impressive number of Western academics,…
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