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You Can Look It Up

Commentary magazine: Joseph Epstein is another dictionary man.

The Power and Challenge of Intuition

 

I provide a checklist for persuasive arguments on Substack.

Christmas Movie Nominee

 

Christmas Reading

Hunter Gatherer Nicholas Bate has a great list of Christmas-related stories.

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Leadership Qualities: A Series

 The British reacted to [General George C. Marshall] with an almost touch-sensitive awareness of his powers. "Marshall remains the key,' wrote Lord Moran, hardly a week after meeting Marshall for the first time" '. . . neither the P.M. [Prime Minister] nor the President can contemplate going forward without Marshall." And later: "In truth, it was impossible not to trust Marshall. . .. It is what Marshall was, and not what he did, that lingers in the mind - his goodness seemed to put ambition out of countenance." After dinner with Marshall in July 1945, Churchill said to Moran, "That is the noblest Roman of them all."

- From Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants & Their War by Eric Larrabee

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Every CEO's Office Should Be Studying This

Matt Taibbi interviews Jacob Savage, the author of the hottest article on the Internet.

Equal Employment Opportunity means Equal Employment Opportunity.

1977: Check Out the Cast!

 

Norman Podhoretz, RIP

 A giant has passed.