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John le Carré’s “A Private Spy” is now haunted by two ghosts—the father and the son.

What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know “Shut your mouth,” said the wise old owl Business is business, and it’s a murder most foul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

One insurance company started offering a space travel policy last year.

From the blog of Jeffrey Herf at The Times of Israel

How the government secretly paid for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to promote American cultural enlightenment

Weingarten’s propaganda tour of war-torn Ukraine demonstrates the deepening integration of the unions with the US government and follows decades of AFL-CIO cover operations for the CIA.

Forty years ago, I wasn't even born. Joe Biden still had his own hair. Scott Hahn was a Presbyterian. And I know this is hard to believe, but the Republican Party in Washington was focused on tax cuts, inflation, and fighting proxy wars against...

The problem conservatives face today isn’t necessarily Reaganism, or the old fusionism. It’s the Republican Party’s refusal to move on.

Here, in Marguerite Young’s “Miss Macintosh,” is utopia, well in excess of sense or design—and finally in excess of life.

On the birth centenary of one of England's best humorists.