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Luigi Mangione’s ‘Baffling’ Journey
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Why Russia Can’t Win
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Dear Sinéad
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'People Are Not Fools'
Doctor, My Eyes
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The Owl Butterfly
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The Drowned
A poem for America
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Trout Fishing With My Son Outside Decorah, Iowa
A poem for summer
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Happy Birthday, M. F. K. Fisher
July 3, 1908, Albion, MI | Died June 22, 1992, Glen Ellen, CA
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The Day I Met Clint Eastwood
In a meeting my son calls awesome, we talked about what he called his antiwar films, the violence inherent in humanity, and why society is at odds with…
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Excerpts From George Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’
On Orwell’s birthday, TFP revisits his 1946 essay and its timeless truths.
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Sirens
A poem for America
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‘America is scary.’
I pray that’s a sentence my son never hears again.
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The First Person with Michael Judge
The First Person with Michael Judge
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