Jacqueline Harpman was born into a Jewish family in Belgium in 1929 and “ IWHNKM ” evokes the horrors of Nazism. Her slim, ...

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Well, it's the year 2021. Sounds pretty futuristic, doesn't it? And despite the many problems facing the world today, things aren't that bad. I mean, if you look back at old movies, the planet ...

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In 1995, political scientist Robert D. Putnam proposed a compelling theory: Civic life in America was on the decline. Americans, Putnam argued in “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” ...