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Agnès Varda Is Still Going Places |

The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose movie “Faces Places” is up for Best Documentary tonight, is not only the oldest Oscar nominee in history; she is also older than the Oscars themselves. She was born, in Brussels, in May of…

Is Poland In the Grip of a Burkean Battle?

In 1790 Edmund Burke published his classic polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. The work has served ever since as a benchmark, especially for conservatives, in judging new political phenomena. A natural question in such circumstances is: what would…

Finding Community in a Book Club

A lot of folks don’t read as much as they used to. In 2014, Pew reported that nearly 25 percent of American adults hadn’t read a single book in the past year. And “the number of non-book readers,” The Atlantic…

Russian hackers ‘do not fear us,’ says NSA nominee

WHAT TO KNOW President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command testified before Congress that even after repeated hacks of government and corporate systems, and despite the outrage over Russia’s social media disinformation campaigns, America’s…