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Faizan Zaki, winner of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee (Wikimedia Commons)
In recent weeks, there have been many articles noting an upsurge in anti-Indian bigotry—by which I mean nativist bigotry against Indian Americans. Let me quo...
Garry Kasparov in 2021 (Wikimedia Commons)
In the Soviet Union, and, later, Russia, Garry Kasparov was in an unusual position. From 1985 to 2005, he was world chess champion, and therefore a national hero. He was also a dissident. Kasparov...
Scottie Scheffler tees off (not in the sense of “rants” or “denounces”) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Over the years, I have written a fair amount about golf, and a fair amount about golf and honor. I did so as recently as August, here. The s...
Czar Mikhail Feodorovich at a Session of the Boyar Duma (1893), by Andrey Ryabushkin (Wikimedia Commons)
Last week, President Trump held a summit with Xi Jinping of China. (“Summit” is probably too grand and serious a word for what took pl...
Nixon and Madam Mao attend the opera (revolutionary), February 22, 1972. (Wikimedia Commons)
This week, President Trump is meeting with Xi Jinping. U.S. presidents have met with leaders of “the People’s Republic of China”—bosses of the Chi...
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