Nowadays there is a growing consensus that the great American Melting Pot has had a hole b...
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the mid-18th century it wasn't jus...
Thanks to fanatical groups like ISIS (or ISIL), much of the Middle East has become a free-...
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Those of you reading this who are not native-born Americans and who are therefore able to ...
Do you write comments in the margins or the covers of your books? If you do, according to ...
Satire, like every other rhetorical device developed over the centuries, can serve a usefu...
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In the runup to the horrors of the First World War, social turmoil seemed to be the (dis)...
"When studied with any degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to r...
It might be a pointless exercise to compare the literatures of two nations separated by mo...
The twenty-five tales of Freddy the Pig, published 1927-1958, constitute one of the cla...
The 1950s film version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds is the best version of al...
