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October 22, 2024In 1962, Norman Mailer sat down to debate his friend William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley was America’s most influential conservative, and Mailer was a homegrown radical. Mailer...
September 4, 2024I don’t remember when I picked up my first issue of MAD. But by the time I was 10 years old, in 1971, I was a rabid fan, waiting religiously for each new issue. The peak...
June 10, 2024One hundred years ago this week, Franz Kafka lay on his deathbed, coughing up blood. By his side was his last, most devoted girlfriend, Dora Diamant, with whom he had fantasized...
May 23, 2024Remember the heady days of 2020? Progressives trained by the richest universities in the land suddenly had the chance to remake America in their image, the way they had always...
February 29, 2024“If an inhabitant of another planet should visit the earth, he would receive, on the whole, a truer notion of human life by attending an Italian opera than he would by reading...
