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A Mad Song and More

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” May 3rd 2024 at 08:43
Reader mail on hating, cousin marriage, etc.

Attendee Judith Hawkins poses next to a display at the <I>Mad</I>-magazine booth during Comic-Con Preview Night in San Diego, Calif., July 20, 2016.
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Age Issues

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” May 1st 2024 at 05:50
Youth, maturity, and the question of wisdom.

Klaus MΓ€kelΓ€, the Finnish conductor, leads the Orchestre de Paris in a rehearsal on July 7, 2020.
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In the Midst of an Assault

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 29th 2024 at 09:42
Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

A scene in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22, 2024, after a Russian missile attack
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Alma Mater: A Story

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 29th 2024 at 07:14
A letter from a retired fighter pilot who, with his wife, set up a scholarship in chemistry at Kansas State.

Campus of Kansas State University, in an image posted to X on August 25, 2023
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A Renaissance Couple

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 26th 2024 at 11:03
On a podcast with Simone Sepe and Saura Masconale, law-and-economics scholars.
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Tale of the Tip, Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 26th 2024 at 07:17
Reader mail on the anxiety of tipping and more.

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Duos, Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 24th 2024 at 06:52
Reader mail on Lerner & Loewe, β€œThe Master and Margarita,” the Confederacy, and more.

The composer Frederick Loewe (left) and the lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner β€” the famous β€œLerner & Loewe”
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One Green Jacket, Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 23rd 2024 at 07:42
Reader mail on Condoleezza Rice, Gabrielle Starr, and more.

Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, then a new member of Augusta National Golf Club, looks on during the annual Masters Par-3 Contest in Augusta, Ga., April 10, 2013.
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Shouts & Murmurs

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 22nd 2024 at 18:23
On a music podcast, beginning with James P. Johnson and his β€˜Carolina Shout.’

James P. Johnson, c. May 1946
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Mum’s the Word

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 22nd 2024 at 06:25
The national debt, the federal budget deficit, and the relative silence of politicians.

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β€˜Warmonger,’ β€˜Traitor,’ β€˜Nazi,’ Etc.

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 21st 2024 at 14:49
The U.S. House passes aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Some like it, some don’t.

A woman prays during a service of St. John the Baptist church in PrzemyΕ›l, Poland, near the Ukrainian border, as people flee the Russian invasion, March 13, 2022.
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A Struggle to Survive

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 19th 2024 at 09:34
Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

People take shelter inside a subway station during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2024.
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A Voice from Kansas, a Voice for Freedom

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 18th 2024 at 11:31
On a podcast with Vernon L. Smith.

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β€˜Write Like Bill’

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 18th 2024 at 10:51
On this summer’s William F. Buckley Jr. Communicators Workshop.

William F. Buckley Jr.; Michael Jordan
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A Book, Found

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 18th 2024 at 07:23
A reader tells a story β€” about how he found β€˜The Master and Margarita.’

Bookshop assistant Howard Rawson-Humphries watches over the books on sale inside Cofian Books, known locally as β€˜Albie's Bookshop,’ in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, September 15, 2018.
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Groves We Have Known

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 16th 2024 at 07:21
Reader mail on tradition and modernity; β€˜God Bless the U.S.A.’; and more.

The Citrus State Historic Park, Riverside, Calif.
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A Couple to Know

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 15th 2024 at 14:38
On a podcast with Robert and Guna Mundheim.

Guna and Robert Mundheim at the University of Arizona, April 11, 2024
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A Republican β€˜Guardrail’

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 9th 2024 at 22:24
On Stephen Richer, the law-abiding elections official in Maricopa County, Ariz.

Stephen Richer, the recorder of Maricopa County, Ariz., speaks at a press conference on the midterm elections in Phoenix, November 7, 2022.
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Terror-State vs. Civilization

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 8th 2024 at 12:47
On Putin’s Russia, and its friends, and its foes.

Firefighters work at the site of a printing house hit by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 20, 2024.
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Kremlin Propaganda and Us

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 8th 2024 at 10:29
When key Republican House chairmen say, β€˜Our party has a problem,’ ears should prick up.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Minsk, Belarus, on November 23, 2023
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WFB in Full

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 5th 2024 at 16:26
Bill Buckley was a big, big person, requiring a broad view.

William F. Buckley Jr. on <i>Firing Line</i>, April 22, 1980
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Boxing

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 5th 2024 at 07:19
On counting Americans by race and ethnicity.

Signs advertising the U.S. Census in Seattle, Wash., March 23, 2020
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Singing Spring

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 4th 2024 at 14:26
On a podcast of music, devoted to the new season.

In Central Park, New York City, March 24, 2024
β˜‘ β˜† βœ‡ The Corner | National Review

Batter Up!

By: Jay Nordlinger Β·Β Jay Nordlinger β€” April 4th 2024 at 07:57
Reader mail on hitting in baseball; β€˜guide rails,’ not β€˜guardrails’; men named John Williams; and more.

Famed hitting coach Charlie Lau, at right, with two outstanding hitters: Hal McRae (left) and George Brett (middle).
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