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If there were three monumental works that could perhaps best explain the fate of civilizations and the future of democracy, the following come to mind immediately: “Lineages of the Absolutist ...

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Capping 2025 and welcoming 2026, I ask my readers to bear with my being starstruck in the last two columns. I started a star trek of sorts this year, writing as a scientist, hoping to encourage ...

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Christmas is not for everyone. It is not for the incomplete. I have known this since I was 7 years old and I learned it the ...

The year 2025 was confronted by an avalanche of news—some historic, many scandalous; some factual, others plainly fake. Including this piece, I have written 52 columns this year, each one a mental ...