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Things Worth Remembering
Things Worth Remembering: Kids These Days Need The Black Stallion
Children’s books should remind kids that there are rewards for persevering past pain and fear. This is the actual heart of adventure stories, and the…
Larissa Phillips
Things Worth Remembering: Abigail Shrier on When Harry Met Sally
‘When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.’
Abigail Shrier
Things Worth Remembering: America Is an Invention
For centuries, poets, musicians, and painters have crossed the Atlantic with dreams of a New World. George Berkeley was one of them. And so was I.
Dominic Green
Things Worth Remembering: Death Is a Friend
My ancestors, the ancient Celts, understood that mortality is not an enemy, but something to be embraced.
Sean Fischer
Things Worth Remembering: Money Can Ruin Your Life
I was born into poverty, and I believed wealth meant happiness. But F. Scott Fitzgerald taught me that prosperity can destroy you.
Rob Henderson
Things Worth Remembering: On Being Safe, Free, and Miserable
In ‘A Real Pain,’ which deserves an Oscar today, Jesse Eisenberg asks: How dare we be so overwhelmed by our own freedom when our ancestors were denied…
Hadley Freeman
Things Worth Remembering: When the Earth Shakes
Philosopher William James was thrilled by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and ‘the improvisation of order out of chaos’ that followed.
Jonathan Rosen
Things Worth Remembering: ‘A New World Order’
George H.W. Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech was lambasted as cowardly. Looking back, it was a master class in diplomacy.
Peter Savodnik
Things Worth Remembering: ‘A Game Most Like Life’
As Vince Lombardi once said: ‘It is time to stand up for the doer, the achiever, the one who sets out to do something and does it.’
Charles Lane
Things Worth Remembering: The Zionism of Martin Luther King
As a shaky peace settles over Israel once more, it is imperative for all who believe in democracy to remember King’s words: “Peace for Israel means…
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: The Dangers of Multiculturalism
Crimes society refuses to deal with are the ones that go against some deep narrative of the age. I know it. I’ve seen it.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: ‘He Died Standing Up’
Jeannette Bougrab’s partner was murdered at Charlie Hebdo 10 years ago—in the name of values, she said, ‘that we’ve forgotten to defend.’
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: Before War There Is Peace
As a new year dawns, Alan Bennett reminds us what it means to live through the calm before a storm.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America
‘In the midst of war, raging and roaring over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, we have tonight the peace of the spirit.’
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: The Empathy of J.K. Rowling
When the world’s most successful writer honored Harvard with a commencement speech, she reminded us all what imagination can do.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: David Foster Wallace on Infinite Things
The great novelist told the class of 2005: Education isn’t about success. It’s about humility.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: ‘We Shall Win the Tomorrows Before Us’
Six days after JFK was assassinated, LBJ brought hope to a broken nation with a powerful Thanksgiving address.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: The Last Words of Alexei Navalny
‘If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong.’
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the ‘Strange Death’ of Europe
Thursday’s mob in Amsterdam, which viciously attacked Israeli soccer fans, is a reminder of how little has changed in two decades—and what must be done.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: Whoever Loses, They Should Lose Like Nixon
Grace in defeat is important for democracy. Both presidential candidates must be prepared to accept America’s choice next week.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: T.S. Eliot Put His World Back Together Again
If America feels a sense of impending doom, the greatest poet of the twentieth century can help us put history in perspective.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: What Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Talk About
In America, we have taken liberty for granted. The author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ tried to warn us, but we didn’t listen.
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: When Bob Dylan Won the Nobel
In the lecture he gave after winning the Nobel Prize for literature, the singer-songwriter spoke about how ‘songs are unlike literature.’
Douglas Murray
Things Worth Remembering: Mr. Biden, This Is How You Defend Israel
At the UN General Assembly this week, our president delivered a milquetoast defense of our ally. Half a century ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan did the…
Douglas Murray
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