What pleasure, what gratification, can we offer to people that exceeds the pleasure of hating?
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I like to think that this kind of deference is a Baltimore thing.
What are the implications for any society that emphasizes monuments to power and domination over imagination and the arts?
Is it possible to imagine the ballet world without a primary teleology of aesthetic perfectionism and a baseline of low self-worth?
The greatest characters possess an irrepressible vitality.
Understanding the extent of the threat posed by Bibi requires a broad historical perspective.
The emptiness of words, and our shared resignation to meaning manipulation, is no small matter.
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.
The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies.
The language of self-censorship removes the question from the moral realm in which it properly belongs.