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Friday, May 8, 2026

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills--The Gettysburg Address Moved America from Constitutional Compromise to Aspiration

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  Garry Wills ’s Lincoln at Gettysburg is a short book with a large argument: that Abraham Lincoln , in just 272 words, redefined the meani...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Beautiful, Suggestive, and Not Quite Convincing: A review of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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  Zoë Schlanger ’s The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth is an elegant...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku

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  Michio Kaku’s Einstein’s Cosmos is a lively, accessible tribute to the great physicist that mixes biography with clear explanations of th...
Monday, April 20, 2026

My Mascot Life

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  I just gave away the tuxedo I bought in 2004. I hadn’t worn it since 2013, so it felt like time to let it go to a better home. Over the ye...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Carl Lutz, Visas for Life, and Eric Saul

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Eric Saul (tall man in the middle) at Arch Street Friends Meeting House At the end of March I went to a presentation titled: Visas For Life...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Yiyang Zhuge: Translating Hannah Arendt Across Worlds

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  Yiyang Zhuge translator of Hannah Arendt and Plutarch At a recent conversation hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City, Roger ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Hoping Against Facts: Belief in Progress

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  The end of the Cold War seemed, for a brief moment, to vindicate the modern belief in progress. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ...