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The Bomb-Makers Hollywood Forgot to Mention
Hollywood can stage revolutionary violence like it did in One Battle After Another. It rarely stages the aftermath, the funerals, or the shattered lives…
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Before There Was a Miracle, There Was a Crisis
Forty-six years after the Miracle on Ice, another American hockey team chases gold—and why the pattern looks familiar today
Feb 22
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The 300: Why Naval Intelligence Said Japanese Internment Targeted 124,700 People Too Many
Eighty-three years ago today, FDR signed an order detaining 125,000 people. His intelligence services had told him fewer than 300 posed any risk
Feb 19
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380 Swimming Pools of Artificial Reality: What Fake Snow Reveals About Modernity
From plastic ice statues to snow made by tablet, Milan Cortina 2026 offers a case study in engineered reality. The Olympics kept the slopes white, but…
Feb 19
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The $95 Billion Search for Lent
Wellness culture reinvented 40-day resets, purification rituals, and structured self-denial—then discovered it had recreated the penitential season…
Feb 18
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When Presidents Stopped Being Cincinnatus
George Washington left his plow to lead a nation, then returned to it. No president since has followed him home
Feb 17
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The Galileo Everyone Thinks They Know
Galileo has become a culture war football. What actually happened is far stranger than the myth—and reveals more about how institutions process…
Feb 16
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Rubio’s Doctrine of Civilization: The West Finally Speaks Its Name
Marco Rubio stood in Munich last Saturday and did something American secretaries of state haven’t done in decades: he told European allies they belong…
Feb 15
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