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July 31, 2025
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Opinion, Сolumns
December 11, 2022
Parties fall apart; the center cannot hold. (We’ve sure seen that.) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the political world. (Have a look at the morning paper...
Opinion, Сolumns
November 6, 2022
The election is only days away, the country is in a funk, talk about the decline of democracy is in the air. If nothing else, the toxic mixture of thi...
Opinion, Сolumns
July 29, 2022
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past? Is this the time to look to 1940, and then to 1945...
Opinion, Сolumns
July 10, 2022
MONTREAL — Winston Churchill, determined. Albert Einstein, ethereal. Eleanor Roosevelt, engaging. Andy Warhol, whimsical. Pablo Picasso, intense. Geor...
Opinion, Сolumns
July 4, 2022
WAUSAU, Wis. — The reminder, every time they drive down the street, of how high gasoline prices are. The delays in home construction and renovation be...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 24, 2022
Americans often reflect on Robert Frost's meditation on roads not taken. Today, we might reflect on speeches not given — and on truths unspoken. One w...
Opinion, Сolumns
April 3, 2022
Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. Also Wil...
Opinion, Сolumns
March 27, 2022
If Winston Churchill were here — and some of us saw him, or his latest incarnation, this month, addressing the U.S. Congress on the plight of his bele...
Opinion, Сolumns
March 6, 2022
We have just heard the president’s State of the Union address. It was delivered in a fraught time by a man freighted with responsibility. He hit the r...
