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20 years after fire, David Koresh's tragic spell lingers

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PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2657 words)

A Sentence Worse Than Death

The following essay is by William Blake, who has been held in solitary confinement for nearly 26 years. Currently he is in administrative segregation at Elmira Correctional Facility, a maximum…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4099 words)

North Dakota Went Boom

Kevin Tschetter, 34, hauls water to and from active wells for KNS Enterprises. Originally from South Dakota, he was meeting with other KNS employees at the Scenic 23 Club in New Town. Long before the…
AUTHOR:Chip Brown
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1029 words)

The Island Where People Forget to Die

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis
PUBLISHED: Oct. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

I, Nephi

The Book of Mormon was a sacred object meant to be venerated; the fact that it existed mattered as much as what it said.
PUBLISHED: Aug. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5196 words)

Nietzsche Is Dead

Count Harry Kessler received the news in the officers’ mess of his army regiment from a fellow officer going through dispatches. On October 25, 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche, who had famously…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5804 words)

The Special Relationship with Israel: Is It Worth the Costs?

Dr. McConnell is a founding editor of The American Conservative . He is a former editorial page editor of The New York Post , and has written for Fortune, The New Criterion, National Review,…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6824 words)
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Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack–era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10090 words)

The Unabomber's Pen Pal

Dearborn, Mich. The paper "Industrial Society and Its Future" makes the case that modern technology has restricted freedom, ruined the environment, and caused untold human suffering. People have…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5676 words)
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