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Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing. By Alissa Wilkinson During every scene of this western, I couldn ...

Harvard’s President Is Fighting Trump. He Also Agrees With Him. Alan Garber became a hero to liberals after Harvard resisted the government. He is also trying to remake campus culture in ways ...

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As I read a war poem by Edward Thomas, enjoy a Mozart piano concerto, or contemplate a M.C. Escher drawing, I am often emotionally inspired by the moment and intellectually stimulated by the ...