When Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II first adapted Edna Ferber’s epic novel “Show Boat” for the stage, in the nineteen-twenties, they…
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George Washington’s farewell address, a long valedictory letter written largely by Alexander Hamilton, and published in Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser, in September, 1796,…
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The lack of rigor in the Hegseth investigation is reminiscent of the F.B.I.’s investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation…
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I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a…
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Most filmmakers, like most people, have interesting things to say about what they’ve experienced and observed. But the definition of an epic…
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On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the…