The birth and longevity of a great University, “based,” as the founder of the University of Virginia said, “on the illimitable freedom of the human mind,” would be a cause for celebration under any circumstances. The celebration is...
I didn’t know I would see the cat when I went out for the milk. I didn’t know that the milk box had frozen during the night and there were broken icicles scattered around it like splintered glass.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I didn’t have a happy childhood. It was miserable. I had a father who was never home, a mother who read True Detective magazines, and an older sister who was a born leader.
A remarkable development has recently occurred within the changing power conflicts and coalition strategies of the Congressional political system. The Congress has chosen after two decades of deferring to the military’s authority to revive...
The distance between the administrations of Calvin Coolidge and Richard Nixon is calculable in sundry ways. Chronologically, it is forty-five years. Technologically, it is the distance from the Tin Lizzie to the moon—immense.
It must be the puritan in me that responds to the challenge to purify the language of the tribe. Presumably even the lowliest poet can assist in this job, acting like a small auxiliary filter in the water supply system.
Agnes Lynne considered that, at sixty-seven, she was young to be widowed, but she was surprised to find how many of her contemporaries had preceded her to this condition. It was as if, while Percy had been alive, the widows had tried to...
How pleased Mr. Jefferson would have been to share in these ceremonies at the University of Virginia. How proud, how delighted, how disturbed—how angry he would be.
