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President Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the Group of 7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, in June. Mr. Carney has said that his government was ready to “drop everything” to negotiate an end to its costly trade war with the United States.
The Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle’s Nest, on Saturday morning after the fire.
Friday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Donald Trump has turned into a “very strange Twilight Zone character” while discussing his comments about Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) appearance. Co-host Ana Navarro said, “He can’t talk about gas
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During a sentencing hearing before a federal judge in McAllen, Texas, on Tuesday morning, Jacob Lix-Par credited the Border Patrol for saving his life. In June, Lix-Par, a 41-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was freed from a burning tractor-trailer alongside 38 other illegal aliens in a dramatic rescue captured on video.
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Former Harvard President Claudine Gay is reportedly back at the Ivy League school nearly three years after stepping down in disgrace due to plagiarism accusations . This time, Gay will teach a course about Harvard itself.
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Non-Germans are massively over-represented among suspects in murder and manslaughter crimes in the German state of Bavaria.
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Cuba earlier this year. Many officials waiting in the wings in the country, like their Iranian counterparts, represent more hard-line factions.
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Harvard University, which has ties to Communist China, has apparently outpaced other American universities in receiving foreign funding.
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Too much disorder makes life a hell—but what of too much order?
My computer’s wallpaper shot, the picture that comes up whenever I turn the computer, changes regularly, at whose or what’s instigation I know not, but certainly not at mine. I suppose that it—or is it they?—must have some inkling of my taste, for never does anything visually offensive to me appear.
Recently, a panoramic view of the Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber came up. The town was picture-perfect: not a parked car in sight, nor (come to think of it) any human being, human beings being so messy. At first I took the picture to have been generated by artificial intelligence (“Gemini, design me a perfect medieval town in Bavaria”), but a quick search on the internet demonstrated that Rothenburg ob der Tauber (of which I had not previously heard) was indeed as shown—unless, that is, the whole of the internet is part of the vast Truman Show in which we now all live without realizing it.
I had assumed that Rothenburg had escaped damage (other than by neglect) during the war, but I discovered that about a third of it was severely damaged during the war’s later stages. Afterwards, the town was restored, not with absolute reproductive precision, but with fidelity to the overall design of the original buildings.
What a curious contrast with Britain, supposedly one of the victors of the war! There, wherever a lovely town or city had been severely damaged by bombing, no restoration whatsoever was undertaken. On the contrary, local councils could not wait to complete the work of the Luftwaffe and demolish, not restore, what remained. They replaced the old with the most banal of modernist buildings, thereby comprehensively ruining once and for all almost every townscape in the country (sometimes they had planned to do precisely this even before the war). It was as if the country had tired of being itself and wanted to be something else; whereas in Germany, where the need to be something else was very strong, at least some restorative work was undertaken, despite other pressing problems that had to be solved, and very quickly, nearly half of all buildings in the country having been destroyed or severely damaged.
When one reads of the condition of Germany at the end of the war, one realizes that its resuscitation was one of the astonishing feats of our time. That any effort at all went into restoration is surprising, from a purely utilitarian point of view—the point of view of decision-makers in Britain, home of utilitarianism as a philosophy. It has turned out, alas, that utilitarianism is only superficially utilitarian: Its calculations leave out most of what is important in the long run.
Yet when I look at pictures of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, so perfect that it almost takes your breath away, I feel a certain unease. It is too perfect. One would feel there like a fly in a bowl of vichyssoise soup—or at least, as a fly ought to feel in a bowl of vichyssoise, if it could feel anything. The town is intimidatingly perfect, one’s very presence in it spoiling it. The fact is that I am no physical adornment to any town.
No doubt Rothenburg’s perfection calls forth good behavior in certain respects from its residents and its visitors. Even the worst litterbug would not dare to soil its streets. Even the most loutish of louts or drunk of drunkards would keep his voice down as he walked through them. One would expect everyone there to be civil and well-mannered, though not necessarily kind-hearted in any deeper sense. As Miss Marple observed, there is a great deal of wickedness in an English village, notwithstanding its picture-postcard climbing roses, its hollyhocks and thatched roofs.
I suspect that you might feel never quite at your ease in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, as you never feel quite at your ease in the home of an excessively houseproud housewife, who rushes to plump up the cushions you have just sat on the moment you stand up. This is not meant by her as a criticism, no doubt, but it feels like one. You are like the dust that she will not allow to settle, at least not for long, and against which she is ever-vigilant. In short, you are a nuisance, though there is nothing personal in this: for such a housewife, everyone is a nuisance. Physical perfection is the summum bonum, and nothing else counts or will do.
But I would not wish to go to the opposite extreme and say that physical surroundings are of no account whatsoever. For myself, I prefer to be surrounded by beauty and tidiness rather than by ugliness and a total mess. Beauty is not everything in life, but it is far from a negligible desideratum. This raises the interesting question that if I don’t want to live a life of aesthetic perfection, and don’t want to love a life of aesthetic squalor either, how much imperfection do I tolerate and how much ugliness do it need? Can ugliness and imperfection be dosed as castor oil can be dosed? Could one go into Rothenburg and say, “What I think this town needs is a bit of peeling paint, not everywhere, but here and there, some dead dog in the road or some decaying rubbish (just a little), some drunken slattern accusing her neighbour loudly of having stolen her geraniums?” The trouble with imperfection is that it often gets out of hand and does not know where to stop.
I have spent much of my life in places where imperfection went far too far; where, in fact, it produced something like a living hell, or what would have been a living hell to me had I not been able to escape it regularly. I need hardly point out the imperfections of prison life, even of life in the best-run prisons (they are not meant to be perfect, for that would be to obviate their purpose). But I look back on my time as a prison doctor with something like nostalgia. If I had to choose between being a doctor in a prison and in a town like Rothenburg ob der Tauber, I should unhesitatingly choose the former, though beauty is decisively on the side of the latter. How odd, how contradictory, we humans are!
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Joy Behar doubled down on her declaration that she is embarrassed to be an American. “We all should be,” the The View co-host asserted. During a recent episode of ABC’s The View, Behar played a clip of Larry David calling last week’s
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Friday on ABC's "The View," co-host Sunny Hostin said President Donald Trump has caused the United States "standing in the world" to drop.
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During her exchange with Vice President JD Vance on “The View” last week, Ana Navarro launched a familiar attack on immigration enforcement, claiming that “over 50 people have died in ICE custody” under President Trump, decrying “subhuman” conditions, a supposed “lack of clean water,” inadequate medical attention, and even a “lack of education” in detention facilities. She urged Vance, as a Christian and father, to visit centers holding children.
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Emergency workers tried to rescue people trapped in the rubble of a residential building in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday.
If you’re voting for, supporting, or tolerating a U.S. Senate candidate who ran around with a Nazi S.S. tattoo for 17 years, we know you’re not really outraged over UFC heavyweight Josh Hokit celebrating his Sunday night victory with a troll about Michelle Obama being a man. We know this because we all know that if a Nazi S.S. tattoo doesn’t outrage you, nothing will.
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Staring at your phone won’t make for a rich or exciting life, but at least you’ll be happy for a while.
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who wrote the great Madame Bovary novel, among other lesser ones. A close friend of his once wrote to him asking for advice on happiness, and Gustave wrote back offering his fail-proof method to achieving joyfulness: “One needs good health, and also good luck. And of course stupidity, but if the last one’s missing, all’s lost.”
Good old Gustave, he certainly knew things. If he were around today, he’d be finding some very happy people in America, and I mean very happy people. Especially among the young glued to their contraptions. Aristotle insisted happiness was to be found by looking inward, something today’s youth does nonstop. Speaking for myself, I do not use social media, and I practically live in a pre-internet world. Things like Instagram, Twitter, Meta, and Facebook are total strangers, though I do use the internet to send my copy and in order to receive e-mails. Otherwise I am a very unhappy person reading print newspapers and books.
My Luddite tendencies include carrying no cell phone, except when I’m on a boat in the summer and up in the snows during winter. So, while millions tap away on their machines and look at screens nonstop, I think of Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles, not to mention Ernest “Papa” Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Somerset Maugham, and the great John O’Hara. Now, I don’t expect anyone youthful nowadays to have heard of these names, especially among the very happy multitudes who probably think they are names of fashion apparel. There is nothing to be gained by knowledge of this kind, in fact it’s counterproductive where happiness is concerned. Dumb down, as Gustave told us, and live happily ever after.
I wish my friend Norman Mailer was alive so I could show him this column. I will have to make do with his son Michael reading it, but Norman would have been amused. He was an arch contrarian, an intellectual who reacted like a truck driver when pushed to the brink. Papa was the same, as was O’Hara. Willie Maugham was not physical, he would look down his nose at the vulgar ones, whereas F. Scott would get into a fight he could not possibly win. Irwin Shaw would knock the bum out quicker than anyone, Irwin being a true toughie.
I was recently visited by a friend of this magazine’s Executive Director Curt Mills, Charles McElwee, a young man researching for his future book on Irwin Shaw. We mostly talked about writers and reading and how much we both enjoyed the latter. Airing one’s feelings about the past is not my strong point, but I let it all hang out about how nice Irwin and James Jones had been with me when I was starting out. It was a completely different world. Writers wrote, fought, boozed, and chased women. They frequented 21, Toots Shor’s, and Elaine’s. They held strong opinions. I know some of today’s crop, but they sure don’t measure up, and the female writers, fuhgeddaboudit.
I was once walking with a pretty girl in New York and ran into David Halberstam, a wonderful writer whom I had met in Vietnam. Out of the blue he asked me who my favorite American actor was. I said Robert Montgomery and William Powell. Nah, he said, William Holden, he represents the real America, or something to that effect. We were both wrong, past our time, thinking nostalgically. See what I mean about writers? They no longer exist as far as I’m concerned, like Montgomery, Powell, and Holden.
When Scott McConnell and I went up to Provincetown to interview Norman Mailer for our 3rd cover story of TAC in 2003, Norman warned us he had his head full because Gore Vidal had been staying with him and challenging every word. I liked Gore, whom the first time I met said, “I have read you about me…” “I wish I could say the same,” I countered.We became fast friends. He was like the Templeton character in The Razor’s Edge. Snobby as hell, but it was put on.
That writers have weird brains is nothing new. Mailer believed that writers’ heads were literally harder, hence the head butting. Is good writing born of suffering? Nah, although writers like to think so. Some man or woman recently wrote of “syntactic complexity,” something about pressing words into use. It’s unadulterated bulls—. Decorum forbids me from naming bad writers today, but reading about a rainy northern England town’s depressed homosexual teacher’s pining for some youngster is not my cup of tea. Here’s Papa Hemingway on style: Prose is architecture, not interior decoration… I was forced to learn to write a simple, declarative sentence. This is useful to any writer… Good writing is true writing.
See what I mean about syntactic complexity? It’s as phony as some of today’s writers. Papa also said that it was bad luck to talk about writing, with which I totally agree.
But let’s get back to stupidity, and how essential it is to happiness. A smart phone helps young people to see the world through a screen, rather than through their own eyes. Zoom classes in the solitude of their bedroom makes them even happier. I recently encountered a tattooed, self-absorbed, bearded youth talking about one of the great playwrights of the past. A line from an old movie came to me: “Whoever said the masses are ignorant and unteachable was wrong. They’re happy.”
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Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers uncovered an alien smuggling scheme in the small border town of Eagle Pass that used a hotel room as a stash house to hide multiple illegal aliens. Acting on a tip, a search of the room led to the arrest of two suspected smugglers and four Honduran nationals illegally present in the United States, including a wanted fugitive.
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Stephen Colbert's final bow as host of 'The Late Show' was panned as a "letdown" by 'Variety' as the host ended his run on CBS.
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Monday on ABC's "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg, an apparent self-proclaimed mental health expert, said she strongly believes there was something "wrong" with President Donald Trump.
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Thursday, during an appearance on FBN's "Varney & Co.," White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett predicted a robust recovery from high energy prices once the Strait of Hormuz was fully reopened.
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During Monday's airing of ABC's "The View," host Ana Navarro led her co-hosts in relishing that President Donald Trump and his Cabinet "felt the fear" of death during Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, and might now be more open to gun control.
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The following is an exclusive excerpt from Rep. Elise Stefanik’s new book, "Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities."
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A new study shows that Gen Z has defied the doomsayers to become some of the most active cinema goers by attending more films per year than predecessor generations.
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Monday on ABC's "The View," co-host Ana Navarro predicted people would celebrate when President Donald Trump dies.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a federal civil rights lawsuit against Harvard University on March 20, 2026, alleging the school failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment and discrimination following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel.
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