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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 except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score...
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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. It takes forever to...
View ArticleRepealing the SALT deduction cap would force the working class to fund...
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 speakership of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the GOP...
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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 that baggy, catch-all category of genre fiction....
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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 The Chair, revolving around Jay Duplass’s...
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How the world changed beneath I.S.S.
The premise of I.S.S. is intriguing. Six astronauts on the International Space Station, three American and three Russian, watch in horror as the world below descends into nuclear war. Both crews...
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Bomber boys
When HBO debuted Band of Brothers in 2001, it was an event — prestige television’s answer to the question, “What if Saving Private Ryan were 10 hours long and based on the experiences of real people?”...
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Wrestling and the recreation of cable
Fifteen years ago, the world of streaming used to be a simple place. You could pay $9.99 a month to Netflix or Hulu and open the door to a vast array of primarily archival content. At the time, this...
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A scented millionaire shall not want
A friend of mine told me that when he was younger, he misheard the word “centimillionaire” and thought it was “scented millionaire.” As misunderstandings go, that one makes a certain amount of sense....
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Republicans agitate base on immigration at a cost
Immigration has emerged as a dominant point of debate heading into the 2024 presidential election. Like so much of our discourse, there is more heat than light surrounding the matter. And yet the...
View ArticleThe discreet erosion of US household savings
The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Friday published new data for personal consumption expenditures, revealing a 2.6% rise in the price of goods over the past year and a 0.7% surge in consumer...
View ArticleBlack History’s Heroes Series: Claudette Colvin, the first woman to refuse to...
It’s arguably a sin of history, let alone Black History Month, that many people are unfamiliar with Claudette Colvin. She was Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks was Rosa Parks. Unfortunately, Colvin is just...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to make schools less safe
Of all the places to cut down on police presence, the city of Chicago should be the last one to do so. But Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Board of Education are pushing to remove police officers...
View ArticleNew York Democrats embarrass themselves on crime and immigration
The Biden border crisis has exposed New York Democrats as a joke because they all continue to tolerate the conditions that lead to the violent crimes they also condemn. Multiple illegal immigrants...
View ArticleBig picture: The race today
BIG PICTURE: THE RACE TODAY. Yesterday we looked at a new poll on the Republican presidential race in the key state of South Carolina. (Short version: Donald Trump is 26 points ahead of Nikki Haley,...
View ArticleThe anti-Chinese Asian nations must unite
The tensions spreading across the continent of Asia have accelerated China’s aggression. The smaller nations surrounding the South China Sea need to band together to resist it. The hotbed of most...
View ArticleRep. Jasmine Crockett isn’t honest about critical race theory being taught in...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is not being truthful with the public. During recent testimony before Congress on student academic performance in the country, the representative from Texas claimed to...
View ArticleWith Fani Willis, the legal campaign against Trump is not sending its best
It took a court filing for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to admit that she has a “personal relationship” with a special prosecutor that she appointed to help prosecute former President...
View ArticleCalifornia’s reparations plan: more discrimination
California’s grand reparations plan does not include cash payments (for now), but it includes something equally destructive: overt discrimination. California legislators introduced several bills as...
View ArticleFarmers wage war on EU bureaucrats the right way
Fed-up farmers are squeezing concessions out of intimidated, arrogant bureaucrats across Europe, and it is glorious. European farmers have been protesting en masse by the tens of thousands across the...
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