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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…
December 14, 2025
Mene Ukueberuwa
Americans to Celebrate: The Prophet of the Atomic Age
John von Neumann, the Hungarian immigrant who invented game theory and shaped America’s nuclear strategy, also believed the technologies he developed…
November 24, 2025
Jordan Ellenberg
Things Worth Remembering: The Freedom to Be Different
After Nazism destroyed his homeland, Simon Rawidowicz defiantly wrote: ‘Do not try to hide the Different inside you.’
June 8, 2025
Mijal Bitton
Is Trump’s Mineral Deal Unprecedented? Not Exactly.
For lessons on the president’s offer to Ukraine, look back at FDR.
March 11, 2025
Ed Conway
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