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DEMOCRACY FOR THE MASSES
Unless you can elbow your way to the top of your field, whatever it may be, you are not credited with real knowledge. You're just a...
Memories of a Bad Marriage
Late winter feels like a bad marriage. You are not ready to admit that the thrill is gone, or that things are not quite ready to end for...
AN ODE TO SNOW
It wants to snow, it just can't. The sky is like an invalid trying to get out of bed. Oceans of heated air loiter overhead, vast as the...
ON GREATNESS
Back in December of last year, NPR's Scott Simon interviewed the veteran pop singer Neil Diamond about his new Christmas album and a tour...
WINTER DAYS
Landscape is sometimes even better than biography for giving insights into a person or group. Any casual ride through the dense woods of...
FREEDOM NOW
You wonder sometimes what the 21st century is living on, if not the soma Aldous Huxley invents as food in the novel Brave New World, with...
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