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A symposium on higher education in the United States

The long chronicle of presidential assassinations and attempted assassinations reveals certain commonalities and one overarching lesson.


Banksy’s wit and talent don’t excuse his vandalism and juvenility.

Those alleging that the United States imprisons too many people rely on faulty history and bad facts.

An executive order can restore the game to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American character.

It would be a simpler way to synthesize the skills of getting on base and hitting for power.

Whatever the outcome in November, the city will get (another) highly flawed leader.

Our abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion.

There is some of Shakespeare’s incorrigible rogue in all of us.

The National Park Service should halt current efforts to make the memorial’s once-excellent basement museum into a condemnation of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

His plans to mark the semiquincentennial in 2026 offer an appropriate opportunity to do so in Washington.

Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope proves that there is no contradiction between knowing American history and loving America.
