On Feb. 26, 2025, first responders found Betsy Arakawa, 65, dead on the bathroom floor of the palatial Sante Fe, N.M., home she shared with husband and Hollywood star Gene Hackman, 95. Hackman’s body was found in the mudroom. Investigation revealed that Arakawa had died around Feb. 11 of a rare rodent-borne disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, while
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At the February 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, writer and speaker Douglas Murray called on the 4,000 attendees to replace deconstructionist post-modernism with an age of reconstruction. “The Deconstructionists,” he said, “knew something about how to take things apart, but like children with bicycles had no idea how to put them
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Elon Musk and his DOGE-related spending cut recommendations have dominated headlines in recent weeks. Some Americans are treating the announcement of these cuts like Christmas morning, thrilled at the idea that they get to keep more of their money, rather than have it go toward projects they disagree with – such as the transgender mice
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I spent the first few years of my life in the West End neighborhood of Birmingham, Ala. My mom would routinely pile us kids into the old Ford, and off we would go downtown, observing very old, very beautiful buildings all over the city. These glimpses of structural beauty were deeply stamped upon me –
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“Be always employed in something useful,” wrote young Benjamin Franklin, promoting the virtue of industriousness and discouraging the wasting of time. “Cut off all unnecessary actions.” Surely, though, he did not intend that we maintain a perpetual busy-ness just for its own sake. After all, as Henry David Thoreau pointed out, “It is not enough
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Another Ash Wednesday has come and gone. On this day, many Christians attend church, where a priest or a pastor marks their foreheads with a cross made of ashes, saying, “Repent, and believe in the Gospels,” or more traditionally, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The latter injunction, which derives
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