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The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that. ..

Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a. ..

Given that the most widely accepted date for the start of the Wars of the Roses is 1455, it is unsurprising that the. ..

Who​ was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T. S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around? ...

Anti-communist​ dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-. ..

Most of the characters in Marty Supreme believe their lives are a kind of movie, and when a character speaks of ‘. ..

Normally, being revealed as a hypocrite is kryptonite for a politician running for office. But Harris doesn’t know. ..

Faced with a parade of flushed Madonnas and anguished Christs, it would be easy to think that Fra Angelico was somehow. ..

Britney Spears was a basketball player, not a cheerleader; a self-professed tomboy; goofy rather than graceful. Her sex. ..

When Didion declared ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live, ’ she meant that we lie to ourselves all the time. ...

Does anything matter if we’re done for? We are not the first to wonder. Contemporary fictions are preoccupied with. ..

More than one variety of omniscience is on show in Saraswati. What is referred to as an omniscient narrator is usually. ..

Georges de La Tour’s scan of the visual field is a stark, bold testing out of basic facets of experience. What is it. ..

‘Who’s afraid of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya? ’ was the title of an essay that appeared in a Russian émigré literary. ..

Many brass bands were started by factory owners in the belief that music would give their workers purpose, strengthen. ..

Europe's leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.

Trust your own eyes as you watch the video of an ICE agent killing a civilian, not the administration’s narrative.

Identifying the shooter in Minneapolis, The Intercept found a photo captioned “Jon Ross in Iraq” posted by a man noted in public records as his father.

After questions from The Intercept, U. S. Southern Command updated its count of civilians killed in boat strikes to 123.

Years after defending his dissertation, perhaps unable to adapt or evolve, he appeared stuck in an eternal limbo that would give any student the night sweats. On the other hand, John seemed an extreme version of a kind of intellectual ideal. Wasn’t the freedom to read for much of the day one of the draws of graduate school, after all?