Month: January 2025

“Freedom” is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock and roll songs. How we love to free-associate...

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The success of President-Elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly...

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The photographer Todd Webb met Georgia O’Keeffe in the 1940s, at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery An American Place. O’Keeffe liked Webb...

In the weeks before I took my 11-year-old daughter to Taylor Swift’s Eras concert in Toronto, things started to go...

Germs are in the air again: Indicators indicate that the winter wave of flu and COVID is finally under way....

The new year has begun, bringing with it the socially sanctioned push to make resolutions. Readers, or those who want...

At a recent holiday assembly, I sat behind a row of parents watching dozens of 9-year-olds in clip-on ties and...

As I witnessed the despair and incomprehension of liberals worldwide after Donald Trump’s victory in November’s U.S. presidential election, I...