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Daniel Kahneman’s Decision: A Debate About Choice in Dying
More from our inbox: Questions for AmericaCredit...Kelli AndersonTo the Editor: Re “The Lesson From a Nobel Laureate’s Chosen Death,” by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer (Opinion guest essay, April 20): I admire and respect Daniel Kahneman ...
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When One Actor Contains Multitudes: An Old Form Finds (Eerie) New Life
Online, onstage and onscreen, performers are playing multiple parts. The effect of watching someone shape-shift can be both thrilling and unnerving.
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The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.
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They Were Identical ‘Twinnies’ Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More
In “The Dazzling Paget Sisters,” Ariane Bankes unearths the writings of her high-society mother and aunt, getting glimpses at the 20th-century figures with whom they cavorted.
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José Cuervo: The Man, the Legend, the Equine Tequila Shots
In a new history, Ted Genoways explores the dramatic life of an enigmatic figure who revolutionized his country’s spirits industry.
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You’ve Attended the Tale of Sweeney Todd. Now Hear Mrs. Lovett’s Story.
A new novel, “The Butcher’s Daughter,” imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
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At 66, He’s Finally the Husband of My Dreams
I’ve always loved my husband, but now that we are older and in our 60s, I definitely hate him less. Maybe I shouldn’t have had to wait 33 years — a third of a century — to hate my husband less, but time has been good to him. And it’s not just that he ...
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Another Reason People Fear the Government
Why do Americans have such deep distrust of their government? It’s a simple question with a complex answer, but here’s part of the reason: All too often, the government wrongfully inflicts profound harm on American citizens and then leaves them with ...
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These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power. The typical explanation is that he’s following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the ...
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The Dark Side of Empathy
In an interview earlier this year with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk quipped that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” He seemed to blame it, in part, for the decline of America’s cultural vitality. He said he believed in empathy but ...
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