Opinion
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The Soothing Futility of Picking Up Beach Trash
From spring until late fall, when winter weather drives me indoors to the treadmill, I spend 20 minutes each morning…
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Israel’s Moral and Political Dilemmas
More from our inbox: The Frankfurt Book Fair’s Cancellation of a Palestinian AuthorRegulating AirlinesCount Presidential Ballot SeparatelyCredit...Pool photo by Miriam…
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With War in Israel, the Cancel Culture Debate Comes Full Circle
Nathan Thrall’s searing new book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” struck me as important even before the…
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Park Seo-Bo, Whose Quiet Paintings Trumpeted Korean Art, Dies at 91
With monochromatic works and the instincts of an avid self-promoter, he helped introduce his country’s art to the world, but…
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Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94
She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a…
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The People Who Broke the House
When it comes to Congress, Americans have come to expect a certain baseline of dysfunction. But I think most of…
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The Blind Ambition of Chris Christie
Chris Christie’s presidential announcement at a June town hall at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire may not have the…
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My Father Didn’t Want to Live if He Had Dementia. But Then He Had It.
Two years ago, when my father was dying of dementia, my siblings and I faced a terrible dilemma: Whose wishes…
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If Everyone Gets an A, No One Gets an A
What is an “A,” anyway? Does it mean that a 16 year-old recognizes 96 percent of the allusions in “The…
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How Landscapes Shape the Way We Think
A few years ago, my wife, Sarah, and I went on a sailing trip on the eastern Aegean. It was…