Puffin’s Place

Do you know that you can set up a snopes.com feed?
If you do not and you have an email account, let me caution you against two items currently going around.
One email sets forth the theory that the Obamas funded their college educations with “funny money.” The subsequent letter is full of fraud, hysteria, and provincialism [...]

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With considerable pleasure, I am discovering a rebirth of interest in thinker and writer Lionel Trilling, the Columbia prof who actually thought we had an obligation to be intelligent.
If you do not remember this man, listen to the video below.

A recent issue of Newsweek included a terrific look back at the 50’s liberalism of which [...]

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