Victor Borge made classical music funny and accessible
We’re letting one of the most original comedy musical performers ever quietly fade away
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Why a slave was erased from a family portrait
A young enslaved boy was painted out of a family portrait only to be restored decades later
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Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
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What Superman and punk rock have to say about rebellion today
In a culture that prizes cynicism, decency and restraint now look strangely subversive
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No, Europeans didn’t invent African slavery
African slavery long predates European involvement, according to a new book
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Margaret Thatcher didn’t play the feminist game
Thatcher rejected modern feminist labels but shattered the glass ceiling anyway
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Canada once took kids’ TV seriously
Children’s television once assumed kids could think and feel deeply. That approach shaped a generation
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A new Sinatra treasure trove makes the case for AI in music
A new batch of long-buried Sinatra recordings from SING Records lands with real punch, and the AI behind the sound is hard to dismiss
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Why this Michael Caine film lingers in my mind
The Great Escaper isn’t Caine’s best movie, but it’s still well worth watching
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The Running Man reboot takes a familiar plot and makes it disturbingly believable
While the original Schwarzenegger Running Man was wild, the remake is uncomfortably plausible
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