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My career avoiding giving career advice
A young friend of mine called me up the other day. He is in the venture capital business and feels he has reached what young people call…
April 9, 2025
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A murder on the San Francisco frontier
Shortly before dusk on Nov. 3, 1870, Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden as he sat with his wife and three of his children on El Capitan,…
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John McWhorter’s preferred pronouns
“To mess with our pronouns is to mess with our sense of the order of things, what’s up and what’s down — life itself,” the Columbia University…
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Returning to the origins of baseball
My brother Rick and I grew up in a time and place ideally suited to the formation of lifelong baseball fans. The time was the 1950s and…
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The Great Gatsby at 100
In 1816, John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, it filled him…
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Anthony R. Dolan, 1948-2025
Some men wield pens like six-shooters, firing words that echo through history long after the smoke clears. Anthony R. Dolan, who died last month at 76, was…
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Mortality vs. millionaire: The devotions of Bryan Johnson
Becoming a multimillionaire opens exciting new avenues for hedonism. You can consort on yachts with models half your age, wash down Kobe beef with unpronounceable scotch, or…