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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity, professional or private, is based. (The other half of life…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the actor and activist Vinie Burrows died, on December 25, 2023, surrounded by her family, she was ninety-nine. She had lived at least five lives. In the course of nearly…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like many great recording studios, Flora Recording & Playback, in Portland, Oregon, is unspectacular from the outside. A brick building situated on a moderately busy street in between two residential neighborhoods,…

A new batch of unsealed documents holds new puzzles for those who want to believe. Unsealed by a federal court in New York: The first two tranches of documents pertaining to Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against the now deceased financier and…

I looked into the Bronze Age and found it eerily familiar. Credit: Carole Raddato When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the French director Justine Triet’s first feature, “Age of Panic,” screened in New York—in 2014, the year after its Cannes première—it felt as if the movie might herald a new…

Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton Heston’s birth. Credit: Nationaal Archief Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton Heston’s…

The crisis of military readiness is a predictable result of the culture of liberalism. (Bumble Dee/Shutterstock) With a recruiting slogan like “Be All You Can Be,” it’s no wonder the Army is enduring a “Tik Tok Mutiny.” When the military—a…

Herman Melville understood both the horrors of slavery and the bonds between countrymen. Should he be canceled? Credit: Dominionart There is a theory of the ultimate fate of the universe, lesser known than the “The Big Bang,” referred to as…