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Tuesday, 4 November 2025 Edison bulbs hung low over the reclaimed-wood table at a popular Brooklyn hangout. A chalkboard listed the Yuletide Farm-to-Table Specials: Roast Chicken with Rosemary ($31),

Combating our current scourge of loneliness and social isolation must be seen as a societal imperative. Platitudes about togetherness won't do; we need action items. A new survey ...

"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours." -- Anna Freud Picture ea ...

Time was, Stanley Elkin was a go-to for the MFA crowd. I recall the titles of his works rolling off many a young writer's reverent tongue back in the 1990s and 2000s. Even if you hadn't re ...

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American ...

"I guess my fantasy has always been that things can be reasonable, that life can be arranged in sensible, pleasant ways. But it can't; I always underestimate the destructive element in human ...

You know you are winning when powerful people become hypocrites to claim they agree with you. That's how free speech advocates should view Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber's Terms ...

As the 2026 film season unfolds and Oscar buzz begins to build, sequels and franchise returns are everywhere. From Toy Story 5 to Scream 7, studios are betting big on familiar titles. B ...

In our Semiquincentennial year, America's civic muscle needs to be exercised. Years ago, my parents and I used to watch Watters' World (hosted by Jesse Watters) on the O'Reilly Facto ...

18. We get a little abstract and we make up a bunch of words and phrases in order to describe what Joan Mitchell was doing on the canvases she painted in 1964, a kind of annus mirabilis for Joan Mitch ...