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Matt Gaetz Grills Air Force Superintendent Over Gender Diversity Scholarship

September 22, 2023 · 1 min read

This has all the markings of Russian anti-US propaganda. But it turns out to be true. Do you think the Russian military – or the North Korean military, for that matter – have programs like this? Click here.

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Playing Nirvana Blind…

March 4, 2024 · 1 min read

Julliard jazz professor Ulysses Owens Jr. plays drums to Nirvana’s “In Bloom,” a song he’d never heard before, and comes amazingly close to Dave Grohl’s original track. Click here.

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Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death

June 6, 2023 · 1 min read

Emily Dickinson might be America’s greatest poet. Even better than Walt Whitman or E.A. Poe. At the very least, she is America’s best Metaphysical poet. If you’ve never heard one of her poems recited, this…

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Pop-Up Classical Music Performances

May 23, 2023 · 1 min read

DF, my elder sister, sent an issue of The Marginalia, where Maria Popova included this link to a pop-up performance of Beethoven’s final symphony. Click here. I’ve covered a few of these before. I especially…

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Douglas Murray on Tennyson’s “Ulysses

September 9, 2023 · 1 min read

Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” says Murray. Click here to listen to him talk about its importance… and then read…

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