classics
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Collectors are ditching the rare Corvettes and picking up Honda Civics and Ford Tauruses as classics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
As Jill Lepore recently noted in Wired, it’s as if tech leaders read George Orwell’s “1984,” Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and other sci-fi classics “as instruction manuals” rather than “cautionary tales.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Sound advice for a struggling new parent: Slate’s advice columnists have heard it all over the years, so our parenting advice column has been bringing back some classics from the archives.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Recently turned 71, Kurosawa is renowned for horror classics like 1997’s “Cure” and 2001’s “Pulse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Very much a man of his time, Copernicus was strongly influenced by the humanist movement in Italy and studied the classics associated with that movement.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
