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The Ironies that Norm Ornstein writes this column.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2017

In his new book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, journalist David Rieff questions the idea that remembering the past is an inherently virtuous practice that will help us solve present-day problems.

From Slate • May 13, 2016

Ironies, funny and sad, are elemental to this company, a troupe for which theater is as much an act of political engagement as an art, filled with risks that Western performers rarely face.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2015

Ironies are obvious: once the network that offered a haven for countrified fare like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies, CBS has slowly been re-gentrifying itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Life's Little Ironies" is a good title, but it is a title that implies a thesis, an attitude from which humanity is surveyed.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert