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What Good Poetry Can Be

A long and distinguished literary career ended on June 23, 2018, with the death of New England poet Donald Hall. A versatile and prolific author, he served in 2006-07 as poet laureate of the United States.

What the Editors Are Reading

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was one of the most important philosophers and authors of the 20th century. Camus called him, “after Nietzsche, . . . perhaps the greatest ‘European writer.’”

“Yet Britain Set the World Ablaze . . . ”

Derek Turner

The untidy title—the “century” is really a century-and-a-bit—signals the complexity of that far-off, still close country so sentimentalized by the right and impugned by the left.

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With Friends Like These
Pat Buchanan | October 12, 2018
Was Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and then his body cut up with a bone saw and flown to Riyadh in Gulfstream jets owned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman?
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The Coming War with China?
Srdja Trifkovic | October 11, 2018
Over the past few weeks we have witnessed a rapid and (for the past half-century) unprecedented worsening of relations between the United States and China.
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Of Deep Concern
Ralph Berry | October 11, 2018
The migrant crisis is principally a deep concern for Europe, with the United States increasingly affected. Canada now joins the list of nations involved in migration issues.
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Robert Frost: Social and Political Conservative
Peter J. Stanlis | October 10, 2018
Robert Frost published 11 books of poetry, won four Pulitzer Prizes, established himself as the unofficial poet laureate of the United States, and acquired a national and international literary reputation.
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