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The news cycle will not slow down, and it’s ironic to think of poetry when considering the presidency of Donald Trump, the least poetic president our country has ever known. But Yeats has a way of applying in these harsh modern times. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / the falcon cannot hear the falconer.”
I secured a second mortgage on our home last weekend so my family could see the latest Star Wars movie.
After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Lyndon Johnson remarked that the Democratic Party had just lost the South for the next generation. He was wrong about that. They lost the South for the next three generations, and counting.
Hampshire College in western Massachusetts is closing its doors soon. It was founded in the mid-1960’s by professional educators who wished to foster creativity and self-expression.
It’s attributed to him, and he never actually said it, but it would suit Winston Churchill anyway – “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
The third annual No Kings protests took place last weekend. It’s politics as culture for the progressive left, offered with the rationale that turnabout is fair play.
The Boston Red Sox are a professional sports team, so nothing they do matters at all. Yet they have either been making me happy or breaking my heart since I was five years old.
We have lived with stalemate for so long, we have forgotten how and why it happened. But to best appreciate Donald Trump’s actions in Iran, we should learn that history again.
It was a heartwarming article in the New York Times, which takes pride in being our nation’s newspaper of record. A restaurant in Syria is going out of its way to serve kosher meals to Jewish visitors.