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“‘The supremacy of self-interest.’”
When did money become the language our crumbling republic speaks?
14 OCTOBER—I do not know what to think or do as Donald Trump proceeds flagrantly ahead with his various schemes to buy votes in advance of the 3 November midterm elections....
“In praise of les étudiants.”
Once upon a time. Paris, May 1968. (Agence France–Presse/ Wikimedia Commons.)
11 OCTOBER—The French have had a certain gift for street demonstrations going back to 14 July 1789, when they stormed the Bastille and the monarchy’s subjects b...
“Trump, the Smithsonian, and the uses and abuses of history.”
If Americans are to find a new future they must first accept their past.
7 OCOBER—Why am I not surprised that among the many things and people and principles and laws and whatever else Donald J. Trump is determined to attack—to destroy or...
“Trump’s war with the ‘liberal’ press.”
Hands up! Mar-a-Lago, January 2026. (Molly Riley/ The White House.)
To our readers. We apologize for our silence lately. No sooner did we return from our summer lectures in Switzerland (published here and here) than we succumbed to bouts...
“‘Terrorism,’ this insidious word.”
The very face of terrorism. Soon-to-be-president Masoud Pezeshkian, July 2024. (Mehr News Agency, cc by 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons
Summer Readings.
25 September—Of all the epithets power deploys to condemn, demonize, or ostracize those who qu...
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