Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
From Jill Lepore
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
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