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The irresistible lure of duty-free shopping

We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that...

30.08.2026 20

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An international journey reveals America does most things right

This week, on a Zoom call with some colleagues, I told the group that I have been traveling around Europe and the Caucasus since May. One of my...

23.08.2026 9

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When a slow trip can have great rewards

On a clear day, from the right spot on the Maltese coast, you can see Tunisia. It’s about 200 miles away — closer than Los Angeles is to San...

16.08.2026 6

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What ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ can teach us about banking

If you’re over 40, none of the following will require explanation. It’s literary canon, etched into your memory over countless summer days...

02.08.2026 20

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The varieties of show-business experience

15.05.2026 30

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Grab bars in the shower is a damn convenient feature. At any age.

01.05.2026 30

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Lincoln lovers

A friend of mine has a vintage Jaguar — a beautiful, impractical thing that he loves the way some men love boats, which is to say expensively and...

27.03.2026 40

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Learning to shut up

A young man bought me a cup of coffee last week. He wanted some career advice, and I never turn down an opportunity to deliver wisdom over a free...

20.03.2026 30

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Baby talk

A friend of mine — she’s in her early 30s, no children — was having lunch recently with a friend and that friend’s 3-year-old daughter. At...

13.03.2026 40

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Book clubbing

A few years ago, a college friend called me on my birthday. He’d been feeling, he said, a little isolated — not lonely exactly, but cut off. His...

06.03.2026 50

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Curling up with the Good Book

When I was in my early twenties, eating alone in a restaurant was fraught with anxiety. Walking in by yourself, being led to a table, sitting down...

27.02.2026 30

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Headshot

About 15 years ago, when I was doing a weekly commentary on a local Los Angeles public radio station, the management hired a professional photographer...

20.02.2026 30

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Know (how to BS) thyself

02.01.2026 30

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The Trump Pencil Doctrine toward Christmas presents

19.12.2025 20

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A half-century of Upstairs, Downstairs

12.12.2025 30

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Helen Dewitt’s experiment

12.12.2025 20

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A comedy writer takes the pulpit

12.12.2025 30

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Losing touch is hard to do

14.11.2025 30

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Conscientious newspaper objector

07.11.2025 30

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Easy driver

31.10.2025 30

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The last movie star

19.09.2025 40

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The seminarians’ groupchat

05.09.2025 30

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A tangled history: Review of ‘Rope’ by Tim Queeney

22.08.2025 40

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The last mission

22.08.2025 40

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The customer service Turing Test

22.08.2025 30

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The vacation binary

08.08.2025 30

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When the murder mystery and the campus satire collide

18.07.2025 30

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Government unions show Newsom who’s really in charge of California

18.07.2025 30

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’28 Years Later’ and the permanent apocalypse

18.07.2025 30

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What do we get out of watching ‘My 600-lb Life’?

18.07.2025 30

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The circle of Long Life

18.07.2025 20

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In search of the Indo-Europeans

04.07.2025 20

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Family Friends: Review of Hal Ebbott’s ‘Among Friends’

04.07.2025 20

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The ‘big, beautiful bill’ is a huge Republican achievement

04.07.2025 20

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The abandoned eight

04.07.2025 30

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The foremost cafe intellectual

04.07.2025 20

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