NotableIt was always Dolly’s show. “To sit with her was to watch (and then inevitably join) a person so completely inhabiting an earlier time that suddenly the air around you changed, the oxygen molecules shifted polarity. You saw the June bugs she was seeing and smelled the honeysuckle.” — Jad Abumrad, a creator of “Dolly Parton’s America” Hollywood is no place for a child. I would know. “No matter how good the union safeguards get, no matter the policing of grooming behavior, none of it will change the fact that acting while so young strips us of our childhoods and leaves us to suffer the consequences — alone.” — Alison Pill, a former child actor Questions for the formerly woke. “If you can dismiss it so casually now — all the defunding and abolishing, the BIPOCing and Latinxing, the canceling and decentering and my truthing — how much of it did you truly believe at the time?” — Carlos Lozada, an Opinion columnist Spotlight
The Only Way to Stop Students From CheatingAdam Grant writes that blue-book exams are fine, but that we need to address the issue at its root. ICYMIHas World War III already started? “In periods of economic distress, democracies almost always become more risk-averse, while dictatorships become risk-prone.” — Bret Stephens, an Opinion columnist More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “The Warning Lights Are Blinking Again”
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