¶ The Paragraph

The citizens of Washington, D.C., planned a celebration for the United States’ 50th anniversary, and invited the living signers of the Declaration of Independence, among whom was its author, Thomas Jefferson. But he was too sick to attend, and sent his regret in a letter41:

It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be […]

“Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President,” said deputy CIA director John McLaughlin, in opening a meeting four days before the United States’ 2004 presidential election21×22. Osama bin Laden, head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group widely blamed for the September 11th, 2001, airliner attacks against the U.S., had just issued […]

Clayton Hall, 14, was bringing the baseball bat for a game in Minneola, Kansas, on “Black Sunday”, April 14, 1935, when the dust storm hit61: “I just got in the middle of the road, … and all of a sudden, I couldn’t see. I thought, well I just got some dust in my eyes. I […]

The Speed-Up

“I wanted a union not so much for the money,” said line worker Peter Schmitz, “I wanted a union … to have a little say so about the speed of that line. Like I say you couldn’t do quality work, it just wasn’t possible that you could do quality work the way you had […]

Guest article by Julius Hungeski

Joseph Stalin said:

Gratitude … is a sickness suffered by dogs1.

To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed … there is nothing sweeter in the world. – Remark to colleague before signing almost 40,000 death warrants2.

The Pope? How many divisions […]