The healing power of medieval austerity
After a morning at a 15th-century priory, and lunch at the Café de France, I rejoined the ranks of the alive and well
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The rise of the Busy People
The world needs busy people to keep turning — and someone has to pick up the tab
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A eulogy for the Democrats of yore
Remember the last invigorating spasm before the body of the party achieved corpsehood?
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The ultimate human futility of sports
Sports would not have survived Classical Greece and the Roman Empire
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