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What Truths Do We Still Hold to Be Self-Evident?
A review of Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, by George Packer.
New York’s Descent
A review of The Last Days of New York: A Reporter’s True Tale, by Seth Barron.
Time-Tested Children’s Literature
A review of Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children’s Great Books and How to Experience Them, by Cheri Blomquist.
Give My Regrets to Broadway
Broadway will have become an amusement park, drama and comedy superseded by content, which has then given place to drivel.
The Insects among Us
There are the insects, surprisingly numerous, who elicit compassion.
Sections
A Jab and a Case
It’s not a shot, it’s a jab. Why? Because that’s what Brits say, and they’re so classy.
From Out of the Loop: My Two Years as Vice President, by Kamala Harris
‘President Kamala Harris! It’s hard not to laugh!’
If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It
On the whole, we could definitely use some good old-fashioned deep thoughts.