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November 16, 2023If there are professions more prone to navel-gazing and backbiting than journalism, they at least have the good sense not to broadcast it. Journalists are congenitally meddlesome,...
July 28, 2023Barbie did not begin as a doll, but as a kind of page-filler. In the summer of 1952, the German publisher Axel Springer was poised to print a new newspaper—a conservative...
June 5, 2023There’s a shortage of good signs en route to the Preakness Stakes, the annual horse race in Baltimore best known as the Kentucky Derby’s older, less attended sibling. By...
January 4, 2023Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, which drops from Knopf in March, is about the people brave or stupid enough to challenge the narratives of the “deep state” after 9/11....
