President Donald J. Trump campaigning in Arizona in 2016 wearing one of his MAGA hats. Recently, he and members of MAGA have disagreed over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Photograph by Gage Skidmore.
President Donald J. Trump is learning all about karmic comeuppance with regard to the Jeffrey Epstein files. …
Read More“The Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I” (1600-02), oil on canvas, Hatfield House.
The new movie “Mary, Queen of Scots” — which I am reluctant to see for reasons that will become clear — belongs to what I like to call the Sylvia Plath school of storytelling. That is, if your telling the story of the suicidal poet, the husband will always be the villain. (That he had two wives who killed themselves in exactly the same way doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in him as a spouse. You know what they say. Once is a tragedy. Twice is an unsettling coincidence.)
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