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Things Worth Remembering
Things Worth Remembering: The Poem That Outlived the Holocaust
Every year, millions around the world honor the victims of the Holocaust by singing Hannah Senesh’s poem, ‘Eli, Eli’: five imperfect lines about a…
Douglas Century
Things Worth Remembering: MLK’s Final Act of Faith
‘Somewhere I read of freedom,’ said Martin Luther King Jr. in the last speech of his life. Most of us today don’t need to read of our rights to know…
Jonathan Eig
Things Worth Remembering: ‘Good Night, World’
Jacob Glatstein’s 1938 poem ‘Good Night, World’ reads today as a warning and a responsibility: Night for the Jews is night for the values a free society…
Ruth R. Wisse
Things Worth Remembering: Orwell Saw This Coming
Days after Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor, Orwell’s ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ feels more relevant than ever.
Charles Lane
Things Worth Remembering: The Dirty Little Secret of Ambition
The late Norman Podhoretz put words to my ambition long before I ever could.
Joe Nocera
Things Worth Remembering: ‘White Christmas’ Is a World War II Anthem
Today, we see it as a quintessential secular Christmas song. To its original audience in 1941, however, the lyrics were impossible not to associate with…
Mene Ukueberuwa
Things Worth Remembering: How to Ask Timeless Questions
When I first read I.B. Singer’s ‘Gimpel the Fool,’ I felt a door swing open—into faith, doubt, and a kind of storytelling I didn’t know was possible.
Joseph Epstein
Things Worth Remembering: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The crossed-out words and penciled-in phrases in the early drafts of the Declaration of Independence tell a story of how our core principles were…
Walter Isaacson
Things Worth Remembering: When Enemies Forgive Each Other
Homer’s 'Iliad' offers an understanding of anger and grief that helps us think about our own strained relationships and political divides.
Spencer Klavan
Things Worth Remembering: Finding Meaning in the Madness of War
Memorizing poetry began as a way to kill time in the Marines. It turned into a lesson in how to live with the possibility of death.
Phil Klay
Things Worth Remembering: Scooby-Doo and the American Ethos
For more than half a century, a cartoon dog and four teenagers have been teaching Americans a radical lesson: Evil wears a human face, and goodness is…
Liel Leibovitz
Things Worth Remembering: The Wisdom of Harry Potter
The series taught a generation that honor matters.
Tiya Miles
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