Huey Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em,’ he would say ...
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Don’t use any of that damn smooth stuff.’ Born in 1893, Long was one of nine children; his father ran a livestock farm. As a young man, he was variously described, Thomas Patterson writes, as ...
CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank focused on economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in West Asia.
O’Connor’s story ‘A Late Encounter with the Enemy’, published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1953, lampoons the première and the sentimental vision of Southern identity it represented. This is how it begins: ...
Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried now or less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the time it takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensure passage broke ...
You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman ...
Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than ...
It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that ...
For months, I had watched our pile of firewood shrink. We didn’t burn it to keep warm but reserved it for ...
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