Appreciation — June 26, 2014, 8:00 am
The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe
From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
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Appreciation — June 26, 2014, 8:00 am
From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
Appreciation — April 16, 2014, 8:00 am
Havoc, and spoil, and ruin be thy gain
Appreciation — March 19, 2014, 6:11 pm
“January 1998. In the windowless office shared by the Harper’s interns, I meet this hippie dude from Vermont: ponytail, spectacles of the sort favored by engineering students, lumberjack shirt.”
Appreciation — February 14, 2014, 12:29 pm
Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance
Appreciation — August 28, 2013, 7:55 am
How the director of The Grandmaster captures the essence of the fight
Percentage of US college students who have a better opinion of conservatives after their first year:
Plastic surgeons warned that people misled by wide-angle distortion in selfies were seeking nose jobs.
Trump fires missiles at Syria, a former FBI director likens Trump to a Mafia boss, and New Yorkers mistake a racoon for a tiger.
"Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed at least a hundred laws loosening gun restrictions since President Obama took office. Yet the National Rifle Association has continued to insist that government confiscation of privately owned firearms is nigh. The NRA’s alarmism helped maintain an active membership, but the strategy was risky: sooner or later, gun guys might have realized that they’d been had. Then came the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, followed swiftly by the nightmare the NRA had been promising for decades: a dedicated push at every level of government for new gun laws. The gun-rights movement was now that most insufferable of species: a hypochondriac taken suddenly, seriously ill."