Dichotomy and Containment
Six rallies in a row, the ball goes crosscourt to the backhand corner. Nothing about it is dramatic. It lands deep, a few feet inside the sideline, with enough height to push the opponent back and not enough pace to […]
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Farm at dawn, a schoolhouse by noon, Parliament in the afternoon, a tavern table at night. A day with Edmund Burke, and "conservative" stops meaning what it means now, and institutions, their kinds and structures, become the whole question of liberty.
Six rallies in a row, the ball goes crosscourt to the backhand corner. Nothing about it is dramatic. It lands deep, a few feet inside the sideline, with enough height to push the opponent back and not enough pace to […]
At the north end of the Bassin de la Villette in Paris stands a round stone building with a ring of columns, built in the 1780s by the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. It looks like a small temple. It was a […]
On October 27 the Associated Press reported that Republicans fear Libertarian candidates could cost them the United States Senate. The party holds fifty-three seats and can lose three and keep control with Vice President JD Vance breaking ties. The AP […]
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