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May 20, 2025About a decade ago, the editor David Samuels wrote a brilliant profile of Ben Rhodes for the New York Times, focusing on the foreign policy advisor’s relationship to Barack...
May 5, 2025Let it never be said again that Washington, DC is a city without any native culture. The fact that its professional football team, against all odds, is at last returning to the site...
April 29, 2025Shirley Hazzard once observed that at a certain age memory protects one from the burden of experience. A vivid scene, with the interval of several decades, becomes little more than a...
January 31, 2025The grocery store a few blocks from my house in Washington, D.C. was for many years known as the Social Safeway. This tongue-in-cheek appellation referred to the fact that it was the...
January 6, 2025One of the most famous scenes in F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu takes place on a rat-infested ship. All but two of the vessel’s crew have died...
