So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory words as “Mary wrote crime; George committed it” we have before us a highly ...

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In the wake of Trump’s first month in office, when his administration launched concerted attacks on education and research in ...

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