I get it. Like you, I arrived in that small Connecticut city (though I graduated the year you were born) and felt like an anthropologist on Mars. My classmates used “summer” as a verb, came from ...

Old money spots climbers by the noise—logos over fit, name-dropping over deeds, urgency over margin—because care, context, and quiet always win Money can be loud. Old money rarely is. If you’ve spent ...

Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought ...

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In homes and workplaces across Germany, a good command of the passive voice is indispensable if you don't know who was responsible for an action – and whenever you've blundered and would prefer to ...