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How easily we slip into the universe of this cult franchise — a comfortable place, familiar to us even before we arrive

The study of what has gone before is a useful corrective to our contemporary tendency to see every problem as unique

Had the Federalists seriously contested the presidency, they might have remained a party. Instead, they abandoned the field

More and more of our politics is dominated by the tools of emotion and slogan

Those who strongly preferred her before the questions about the foundation prefer her still

Those who tend to dismiss losses and predict victories seem to do better than those who wallow in their defeats

Whether a book is found on a shelf or on a screen, a great first sentence can draw us swiftly into the author’s world. That’s how Lee’s new novel hooked me from the start

A study that analysed top 100 movies from 2007 to 2014 found that of 30,835 characters with speaking parts, only 30.2 per cent were female

But momentous change is starting to hem them in from the outside