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Benjamin Franklin Was the Nation’s First Newsman
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 hours agoBenjamin Franklin was, in his own words, “the youngest son of the youngest son for five Generations back.” Born to a Boston candlemaker who had emigrated...
Maybe We Shouldn’t Take College Protests at Face Value
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThen there was Yale Law professor Charlie Reich. His The Greening of America, a No. 1 New York Times...
Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro dead at 92
New York Post· 2 days agoA year later it won the Governor’s General Award and made Munro a national celebrity — and...
What's in a name?
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 3 days agoThe great English poet Ben Jonson once noted that “Indeed there is a woundy luck in names, sir,” and for proof you need look no further than any of John Train’s “Remarkable Names” collections ...