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Quote of the Day (John Green, on Seeing ‘The Beauty of the World As Young People Do’)
“We need to put down our armor of cynicism and irony and thinking that we know about everything that matters. We need to try to grapple with...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Quote of the Day (Laurence Rees, on a Prior Use of Political Deflection)
“[D]eflection [was] akin to modern ‘whataboutism.’ When confronted with the Holocaust they [leading former Nazis] voiced a series of blatant...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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TV Quote of the Day (‘SNL,’ on Why Santa Might Have Been Watching the Show)
Michael Che [pictured] : “Now, you told me you wanted to share your Christmas wish list.” Michael’s “12-year-old nephew,” Tyson [ played ...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Quote of the Day (Caroline Crenshaw, on the SEC and Markets That ‘Start to Look Like Casinos’)
“It has been unsettling to see how precipitously one Commission [the current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission] is willing to undo the...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Spiritual Quote of the Day (Pope Leo XIV, Calling for ‘Hearts Attentive and Vigilant As We Await Jesus’)
“Let us be careful not to get caught up in frenetic activity in preparing for the feast, which would lead us to experience it in a superfici...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Song Lyric of the Day (Elvis Costello, on ‘Lovers Laughing in Their Amateur Hour’)
“Lovers laughing in their amateur hour Holding hands in the corridors of power.” —British singer-songwriter and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame m...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Quote of the Day (Rob Reiner, on How He’d Like To Be Remembered)
“Complete this sentence (fact or fiction are both acceptable): ‘I was born in THE BRONX, N.Y. and I studied MY FATHER AND MOTHER at HOME. I ...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Quote of the Day (Robert A. Heinlein, on Rudeness and ‘A Dying Culture’)
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Quote of the Day (Keith McNally, on a Feeling Increasingly Common in the Holidays)
“There are few feelings of relief that compare to the first gulp of night air after leaving a dinner party prematurely.”— British-born New Y...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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This Day in Literary History (V.S. Pritchett, Wildly Versatile British Man of Letters, Born)
Dec. 16, 1900--Victor Sawdon Pritchett—or, as readers came to know him across multiple genres across the 20th century, V.S. Pritchett —was b...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Quote of the Day (Anne Tyler, on Biting One’s Tongue)
“Someday I'd like to get credit for not saying all the things I could have said.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler, Three...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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TV Quote of the Day (‘Barney Miller,’ As Fish Receives a Stupefying Retirement Gift)
Det. Phil Fish [ played by Abe Vigoda ] [ opens his present ]: “What is it?” Det. Stan “Wojo” Wojciehowicz [ played by Max Gail ]: “It's a...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Photo of the Day: Carrie Tower, Brown University
In late October 10 years ago, I visited Brown University while vacationing in Providence, R.I. I was impressed with the architecture of the...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Spiritual Quote of the Day (Sholom Aleichem, on Not Being ‘Worried About God So Much’)
“I wasn’t worried about God so much. I could come to terms with Him one way or another. What bothered me was people. Why should human beings...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Quote of the Day (Chaim Grade, on an Annoying Son-In-Law)
“It vexed him that his son-in-law replied to every question, ‘What do I know?’”— Lithuanian-born Yiddish novelist and poet Chaim Grade (1910...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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TV Quote of the Day (Norm Macdonald, on 20th-Century German Militarism)
“The entire earth, there’s only one country that frightens me – that’s the country of Germany. I don’t know if you guys are students of hist...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on Judging a Man)
“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”— Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Lord Jim (1900)
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December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Quote of the Day (Megan Nolan, on Going Home to Ireland for the Holidays)
“I go home for the holidays in Ireland, and whether you like it or not, going back to the place you were raised and known best in the world ...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I will speak about “Amazing Grace: Grace Kelly and Her Philadelphia Family,” at the Little Ferry (NJ) Public Library on Wed., Dec. 17, at 12 noon. Hear about her classic performances—and why she walked away from Hollywood to become Princess Grace of Monaco. More information: 201-641-3721.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I will speak about “Amazing Grace: Grace Kelly and Her Philadelphia Family,” at the Little Ferry (NJ) Public Library on Wed., Dec. 17, at 12 noon. Hear about her classic performances—and why she walked away from Hollywood to become Princess Grace of Monaco. More information: 201-641-3721.
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Quote of the Day (Quinn Slobodian, on the Current ‘Libertarian Eugenics’)
“All told, the picture is one of a consistent, if unacknowledged, libertarian eugenics. The high-tech fertility market privileges those able...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Verse of the Day (A.M. Juster, on an Ambitious Government Bureaucrat)
“Your uphill climb will never stop; scum always rises to the top.” —Poet, translator, and essayist A.M. Juster (pseudonym for Michael J. ...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Spiritual Quote of the Day (St. Gregory of Nazianzus, on God’s Appearance to Humanity)
“He whom presently you scorn was once transcendent, over even you. He who is presently human was incomposite. He remained what he was; what ...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Photo of the Day: Late Fall, Hackensack River, Bergen County NJ
I took this image a week ago today, while walking through Johnson Park in Hackensack, NJ. With temperatures dropping, the number of walkers ...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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