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Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters?
Paintings from before 1850, once a bedrock of the market, now account for just a tiny percentage of auction sales.…
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Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to…
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How Long Can Hakeem Jeffries Keep His Democratic Cats Herded?
Kevin McCarthy, after 15 excruciating ballots, was finally elected speaker of the House, and if his path to leading a…
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Diversity Trainings Try to Change Hearts and Minds. That’s a Mistake.
Diversity trainings have been around for decades, long before the country’s latest round of racial reckoning. But after George Floyd’s…
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The Defenders of the Amazon Never Wanted to be Martyrs
What I’d heard of a little Brazilian town on the eastern edge of the Amazon had prepared me for the…
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The Trouble With Paradise
One day in my 20s, several decades ago, I got on a plane in New York City and flew across…
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Learning to Embrace Being Short
More from our inbox: How to Comfort Someone in PainEfforts to Derail Ballot MeasuresTemple of Social Good? Aspirations vs. Reality.Credit...Illustration…
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A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ It’s hard to think of a more celebrated figure of the 20th century than…
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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian Movie Legend, Is Dead at 95
Known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” the European sex symbol went on to American movie stardom, later…
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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian Movie Legend, Is Dead at 95
Known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” the European sex symbol went on to American movie stardom, later…