Follow a family as they celebrate not just one, but two new years: Rosh Hashanah in fall and Lunar New Year in early spring. Warm illustrations evoke the paper cutting traditions of both cultures in this thoughtful look at this shared celebration. A Sydney Taylor Book Award winner 2024.

It’s a good time to step back and take in the big picture. Walter Russell Mead’s essay “The Once and Future Liberalism” in The American Interest encourages that by arguing that our current political argument is really a battle between two versions of liberalism: the small state Manchester liberalism of the 1890s and the big organization managerial state liberalism of the 1950s.

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