Musical boycotts may make commercial sense, but they deprive audiences of the sounds and energy of protest.
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Timeline
A decade ago, the Republican Party was vitriol center. So why does Trump surprise?
Shaped by trains
The sound of memory comes in many forms, and sometimes travels the rails.
Lady Gertrude
A doe-eyed guest is one thing. A doe-eyed pregnant pigeon you fall for quite another.
Christopher Stonewall
A politically correct age wouldn't take well to a kid in a Confederate cap.
Monitoring the aftermath
Two years after Boko Haram abucted more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, part of the worry concerns their release.
Dangerous dumbness
Underestimating the creativity of students is among the more serious errors a teacher can make.
Mørke horisont
Nordic TV shows have muscled their way into the English-language world, darkening the landscape.
Revising “success”
"Do no harm" is one thing, but just doing good becomes complicated if a patient won't comply.
Product comes balled
Dissuading pigeons from entertaining themselves at your Rome expense is... complicated.
Process this
On rainy days, the author gets around to dander, if not raising his hackles, so beware.
Optics
When your eyes put you under pressure, the universe acquires all kinds of bright colors.