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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love poem is famous. But her own love story is just as legendary. Read more

Time and time again, this country’s most innocent pleasures are made grist for the modern grievance mill. I’ve had more than enough Read more

When he sticks to the teleprompter he reads it with an air of suspicion, as if he knows this thing has tripped him up before and he’s darned if he’s

But the closer it comes to the Democratic Party having to confirm their candidates, the less likely it looks like 80-year-old Biden will be running. Read more

Harvard — like most other educational institutions in this country — was desperately trying to increase quotas of certain students, notably black Americans. Read more

In his famously dark masterpiece, T. S. Eliot evokes a moment of ecstasy. Read more

Well, the Russian invasion of Russia turned out to be vastly more successful than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read more

The first is that it should by now be abundantly clear that every letter after B in the LGBTQIA+ alphabet has made the argument for gay rights infinitely harder. In

I ADMIRE bravery. I admire adventurers. And I was brought up in a Britain which admired these things too. But much of our country has changed. Where we used to