'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
From Jill Lepore
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
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