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Today — April 24th 2024Your RSS feeds

Duos, Etc.

Reader mail on Lerner & Loewe, “The Master and Margarita,” the Confederacy, and more.

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

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

On a music podcast, beginning with James P. Johnson and his ‘Carolina Shout.’

James P. Johnson, c. May 1946

Mum’s the Word

The national debt, the federal budget deficit, and the relative silence of politicians.

‘Warmonger,’ ‘Traitor,’ ‘Nazi,’ Etc.

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 Przemyśl, Poland, near the Ukrainian border, as people flee the Russian invasion, March 13, 2022.

A Struggle to Survive

Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

People take shelter inside a subway station during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2024.

A Voice from Kansas, a Voice for Freedom

On a podcast with Vernon L. Smith.

‘Write Like Bill’

On this summer’s William F. Buckley Jr. Communicators Workshop.

William F. Buckley Jr.; Michael Jordan

A Book, Found

A reader tells a story — about how he found ‘The Master and Margarita.’

Bookshop assistant Howard Rawson-Humphries watches over the books on sale inside Cofian Books, known locally as ‘Albie's Bookshop,’ in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, September 15, 2018.

Groves We Have Known

Reader mail on tradition and modernity; ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’; and more.

The Citrus State Historic Park, Riverside, Calif.

A Couple to Know

On a podcast with Robert and Guna Mundheim.

Guna and Robert Mundheim at the University of Arizona, April 11, 2024

A Republican ‘Guardrail’

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.

Terror-State vs. Civilization

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.

Kremlin Propaganda and Us

When key Republican House chairmen say, ‘Our party has a problem,’ ears should prick up.

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

WFB in Full

Bill Buckley was a big, big person, requiring a broad view.

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

Boxing

On counting Americans by race and ethnicity.

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

Singing Spring

On a podcast of music, devoted to the new season.

In Central Park, New York City, March 24, 2024

Batter Up!

Reader mail on hitting in baseball; ‘guide rails,’ not ‘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).

The Challenge of Propaganda

On a conversation with Peter Pomerantsev about how to win, or lose, an information war.

Sefton Delmer in 1958

’16 and ’20, Revisited

On the question of election-denying.

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

Sounds of Music, Etc.

Reader mail on a musical, a symphony, digital addiction, and more.

Images of Beethoven in Bonn, Germany, his hometown, May 15, 2019

The Girl Scouts, Saint Urho, and More

Reader mail on subjects familiar and less so.

A Girl Scout troop marching in a Veterans Day parade, Miami Beach, Fla.
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