The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
By Peter Jones
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It’s awe-inspiring to watch the UATX taking shape
By Pano Kanelos
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‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
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He’s perhaps the greatest rising comedian, a beer drinker who understands Trump’s appeal
By Ben Domenech
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It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet
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It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars
By Art Tavana
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The populist heart may want Trump, but many heads are for the Florida governor
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It’s been dismaying to see anti-gay sentiment bubbling up
By Bruce Bawer
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It debuted to a burst of attention only for everyone to lose interest
By Matt Purple
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I’m back in a city where you can’t walk alone after dark. Thank you, Democrats!
By Ann Coulter
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Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine
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Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine
By Jesse Singal
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I hate to break it to you, ladies, but no man wants a woman barber
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She mines outrage and attention by crusading against the ethically unenlightened
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Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality
By Joel Kotkin
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Books + Arts
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
By Russ Smith
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There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
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A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
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He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
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Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
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The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
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Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
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The HBO Max miniseries shows a rare interest in the present moment
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New singers are bucking bro-country and reconnecting with their roots
By Amber Duke
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The Met brings out its bread and butter: stunning galleries devoted to Greek and Roman art
By Mario Naves
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Joanna Hiffernan is now at the center of The Woman in White, an exhibition at the NGA
By Jane Coombs
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He was willing to pulverize all we hold dear in modern America
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Which scenes will cause you to walk out or flee in disgust? Caveat emptor
By Gavin Smith
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Life
War and revolution have trailed me like banshees
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In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place
By David Marcus
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It’s overbuilt, overcrowded, and straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting
By Taki
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I’ve failed to cheer myself with strong alcohol, CBD and speed, so I went to the local nuns
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Wonder what sort of a sad sack asks for a selfie with someone famous? Answer: me
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The city, not the waterfall, which remains a source of utter befuddlement
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At least Trump won’t go down in the history books as ‘Don’ or ‘Donnie’
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Food and Drink
Where else can one encounter such diversity?
By Teresa Mull
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Cooking is a duty, a vocation and an adventure, requiring grace and wisdom as much as ingredients and recipes
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Nature, in the firm hands of the gardener, is trained up to produce food for people
By Jane Stannus
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This time of year always makes me nostalgic for the New England coast
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And Finally
Why do Americans insist on using last names as first names?
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It’s useful to have a name ready when the family asks at dinner: “What’s this?”
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