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"He read 'Moby-Dick' at 9. He could devour 400-page books in an hour. He had a photographic memory."
By Ann Althouse
"As an after-dinner party game, he liked to recite 'Paradise Lost,' starting from any line a tipsy guest chose."Writes Dwight Garner, in "Inside the Mind of the ‘Man Who Read…
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"Restoring Van Gogh’s Ear & Mending His Broken Heart."
By Ann Althouse
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"Do you think Bari Weiss needs to be removed?"/"Oh, gosh, yes. Look, she’s a lovely person. And her Free Press organization that she founded has been very successful. But television’s not her thing."
By Ann Althouse
"This is like somebody walking up to me and saying, 'There’s a 747, there are 400 people on it, we need you to fly it to Paris.' I’m going to…
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"In the White House, there is a system for dealing with a president who rarely sleeps. The staff take it in shifts so they get a nap…"
By Ann Althouse
"... even if he doesn’t. Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles starts early and stays on until early to mid-evening. Then it’s over to her deputy Dan Scavino, a…
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Live feed of the filling of the Reflecting Pool.
By Ann Althouse
Can we all just say it looks beautiful? Pick the answer closest to what you think.Never. It looks like Trump. That's all I see and that's always ugly. Let's be…
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Why did the bird cross the road? For dark and unknowable reasons?
By Ann Althouse
Yesterday, we were talking about Arthur Miller's aphorism: "Glamour is a bird that for dark and largely unknowable reasons decides to light on this branch rather than another."My reaction: "Birds…
EJIL: Talk!
Announcements: Diversity and Teaching International Law Webinar; CfP Workshop on Neutrality in Legal Scholarship; Doctoral Workshop on Sustainability and Law; Evidence in Human Rights Law Conference; First International Congress on Human Rights
By Mary Guest
1. Diversity and Teaching International Law Webinar. On Wednesday 17 June at 14.30 – 16.00 CET, the ESIL Teaching Corner Webinar Series will host a webinar on ‘Diversity and Teaching…
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"Arthur Miller described the voluptuous yet fragile woman he wed as 'a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.'"
By Ann Althouse
"When Miller left out his journal open to a page saying that she had embarrassed him in front of his intellectual peers and Marilyn read it, she wrote, 'I guess…
Simple Justice
The Fault . . . Is Mine Alone
While I was hardly a regular watcher of The Apprentice, I did watch occasionally, particularly in the early seasons. One thing stood out to me then. The losing team would…