Book Review: ‘Proof,' by Adam Kucharski
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In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.
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Book Review: ‘Strangers in the Land,’ by Michael Luo
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In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
Book Review: ‘The Fate of the Day,’ by Rick Atkinson
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The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
Book Review: ‘The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood,’ by Matthew Specktor
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In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.
Book Review: ‘Waste Wars,’ by Alexander Clapp
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In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.
Book Review: “The Trouble With Heroes,” by Kate Messner
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Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.
David Horowitz, Leftist Turned Trump Defender, Is Dead at 86
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Once a Marxist, he came to embrace hard-right positions, including the falsehood that Mr. Trump won in 2020, and to mentor Stephen Miller, later the Trump adviser.
Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'
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Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall's Webpage
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Episode 228: Free Time
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