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Fanaticism and Ignorance Is Forever Busy
The tiny hamlet of Upper Red Hook, New York, a couple of miles from my house, is not likely to receive a visit from a major-party presidential candidate…
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Someone Just Like Myself, Which I Know There are Thousands
Is history like a beach? Or is it like the untold millions of grains of sand that make up the beach? A historian’s job is to make sense of the dunes and…
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Sunday Bonus
I recently had a chance to take in a show by the Gandini Juggling troupe, an excellent mix of precision juggling with dance, comedy, and spectacle. It…
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A Warning in Thunder Tones: Portents of Doomsday
Since 1947 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has kept track of a Doomsday Clock, which measures our distance from world-ending catastrophe. Originally…
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The Birthday of a New World is at Hand
Before the Fourth of July, there was Common Sense. The Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord in April 1775. The fighting continued with the…
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Brother, the Good Work Has Begun
The classic crime film The French Connection opens with Gene Hackman playing an undercover cop dressed as Santa Claus. After a foot chase, he tells a…
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She Stood Flat Footed and Pounded the Table
“Nobody made a greater mistake,” the statesman Edmund Burke said, “than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” The rush of events these…
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Five Years of Freedom to Learn How to Pitch
In 1906, the year Leroy Robert Paige was born, his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, legally segregated restaurants, saloons, hotels, even cemeteries. Leroy…
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