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The Spierig brothers’ new film, “Winchester,” which opens today, is a historical drama of sorts, a loose adaptation of the true story of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the firearms fortune, who was born around 1840 and died in 1922. It’s…
“He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something. “When people…
There are perhaps few individuals whose career arcs have been more altered by Donald Trump’s presidency than Preet Bharara. The former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, who was fired by the president last year after refusing…
President Donald Trump lied about his inauguration crowd size being the biggest ever. Now he appears to be doing the same with his State of the Union numbers. Trump on Thursday morning tweeted about his State of the Union viewership,…
The psychological craving for normalcy runs deep in official Washington. The chattering class has largely given up on the Donald Trump “pivot,” having fallen too many times for a successful read of a prepared text only to uncork an unhinged…
Radio Sputnik discussed Swedish brain researcher Martin Ingvar’s claim that global IQ rates are plummeting due to the overuse of TV and computer entertainment with John Ratey, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Ratey is author of…
