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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Charles Taylor |Suzanne Kahn |Lyra Walsh Fuchs |Nelson Lichtenstein
Legalized Murder
If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Mark Bauerlein |Charles Taylor
Conversations with Mark Bauerlein The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. joins in to discuss his new book, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Charles Taylor |Rory Stewart |Julia Rombough |Julie Kalman
Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
journals.lww.com | Charles Taylor
I paused for a moment as I rounded the bend to the last flight of stairs en route to the medical-surgical unit. I could hear yelling, somewhat muffled because of the fire door ahead, but the volume was loud enough that I could almost make out the words. I knew it was my patient; even if the urgent page before my four-story climb had not primed me, I recognized the voice and the situation I was about to encounter.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
mysterytribune.com | Charles Taylor
Charles David Taylor, author of “Daddy’s Girl”, has lived all over Texas, from El Paso to Austin, Dallas and now divides his time between Houston and Serbia, his wife’s home country. He spent the decade of the nineties in Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech) and long before that, some formative years as an Air Force brat in Japan.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
sooperarticles.com | Charles Taylor
HomeArt & EntertainmentMusicHarmonizing Your Life - How Music Theory Can Reduce Stress and Enhance Well-BeingHarmonizing Your Life - How Music Theory Can Reduce Stress and Enhance Well-Being In the bustling cadence of our modern lives, stress stands as a constant companion. It affects our mental and emotional equilibrium, and finding effective strategies to manage it is paramount.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
medium.com | Charles Taylor
I remember you. Your smile. Your laughter. The goofiness that you were. My friend, or so I thought. I used to dig the way your smile would radiate through your eyes. Kinder than a Saint. What happened? Was it that we were ahead of our time by not staying in the here and now, always too many light years away to enjoy the moment? Or, did we sugarcoat the expectations of two love starved souls for far too long?
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
yahoo.com | Charles Taylor
Paul McCartney Like You've Never Seen Him BeforeSarah Kim"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."What can there be left to say about Beatlemania? Plenty. The Beatles’ arrival is one of the most consequential events of the Western twentieth century. You might as well ask: what’s left to say about World War II?
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Mar 23, 2023 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg |Charles Taylor |Phoebe Braithwaite |Peter Mandler
A New Path to Diversity
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity.
Richard D.
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
charlestaylor.substack.com | Charles Taylor
Nobody goes to see Romeo and Juliet hoping that the lovers will be saved. You can, no matter how many times you see Hamlet, rue the impetuous and mistaken murder of Polonious from which calamity flows. And I can’t imagine ever sitting through Othello without being devastated that that great, heroic man can be done in by his jealousy and his puffed-up sense of himself.
