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  • Britain is leaving the EU – will other countries follow?

    Britain is leaving the EU – will other countries follow?0

    The British decision to leave the EU has been a long time in the making, but it does not lessen the shock that many politicians in the UK and across the EU are feeling. While London begins the long process of negotiating an exit from the European Union, some of our attention must now turn

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  • Bringing the Fun Home: Five Family Outings for Tight Budgets

    Bringing the Fun Home: Five Family Outings for Tight Budgets5

    In 1987, a beaming New York Giants quarterback was the first person publicly asked what soon became a well-known question: “Phil Simms, you’ve just won the Super Bowl! What are you doing next?” “I’m gonna go to Disney World!” Simms said. Many average Americans couldn’t give Simms’s answer today. The reason isn’t Disney’s “woke” policies,

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  • Bringing Light to the Asylum

    Bringing Light to the Asylum0

    Back in the 1980s, writer Florence King began her essay “Democrazy” by recounting a scene from the 1946 Japanese war trials. At one point, the former propaganda minister, Shumei Okawa, leaped to his feet and cried out: “I hate United States! It is democrazy!” That unintended pun is the theme for King’s piece, which appears

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  • Bringing Joy to a Weary World

    Bringing Joy to a Weary World0

    I caught a glimpse of a friend’s Christmas decorations the other day while looking at social media. Positioned over the fireplace was the phrase, “The Weary World Rejoices.” That reference to a weary world, taken from the famous Christmas carol, “Oh Holy Night,” seems a fitting description of this year. Our world and those who

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  • Bringing Down the Game of Thrones: A Revolution of Restoration Is Underway

    Bringing Down the Game of Thrones: A Revolution of Restoration Is Underway1

    In his 1997 memoir Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, Yale University professor David Gelernter tells us of the mail bomb that exploded in his hands and forever changed his life. In this account of his long period of treatment and recovery, Gelernter caused a stir with his criticisms of American culture, at least one of

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  • Bringing Back Sanity

    Bringing Back Sanity0

    On a recent trip to Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown, I at one point met with two female docents who would lead me on a tour. (I am being deliberately vague here, as I don’t want anyone to get reprimanded.) At that meeting beside the museum’s ticket desk, I asked both women if we could

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