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In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he ...

I used to work for a publisher that accepted unsolicited submissions. Our guidelines, apparently unrevised since the advent of the internet, required authors to mail their manuscripts in hard copy ...

After the humiliation of defeat, we looked to the twenty-sixth president for solace. “Teddy Roosevelt says—let me find the part that matters,” said Kacey, our team captain, struggling to catch her ...

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In October 1939, C. S. Lewis delivered a sermon at Oxford’s University Church, later published under the title “Learning in War-Time.” World War II had been under way for just a few weeks, and most ...