The Corner

The Old Man and His House

In a daily feature it called “Column One,” the Los Angeles Times routinely pumps out some of America’s most interesting journalism. Today’s article is on the final home of Ernest Hemingway, in Idaho, where he wrote portions of three books and then killed himself. There’s a controversy brewing over whether it should be opened to the public — its owner (the Nature Conservancy) and Hemingway fans say yes, the locals say no.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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