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Showing posts with label 100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2026

Destined for War: Ancient Greece and the Shadow Over the Twenty-First Century

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  A friend with deep connections in China recommended Graham Allison 's Destined for War after President Xi Jinping warned President T...
Monday, June 29, 2026

A Day at the Imperial War Museum Duxford

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  One of the highlights of my recent visit to England was a bicycle ride from Cambridge to the Imperial War Museum Duxford , one of the fin...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books

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  Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

America's 250th Anniversary vs. the Bicentennial

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  My tank, Bad Bitch, on a tank trail on Fort Carson, Colorado , July 1976. On July 4th 1976 I was in a tank in the desert training area on ...
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Friday, June 19, 2026

Nazi Death Camps and C.S. Lewis

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Emily, Me and Cliff Since 2017, I have visited sixteen different Nazi death camps in Germany, Poland, Czechia and France.  A few of them twi...
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Friday, June 12, 2026

Elegy in Blue: Mark Helprin Still Believes in Heroes

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Reading Mark Helprin ’s Elegy in Blue feels like visiting an old friend, a friend who is clearly aging, (as am I) but still his brilliant s...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Stalingrad: War and Peace for the Twentieth Century

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Vasily Grossman ’s Stalingrad is an ambitious novel, and remarkably, it succeeds in its vast ambition. When Grossman set out to tell the st...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Everything Must Go: A Review

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Dorian Lynskey ’s Everything Must Go is a fascinating tour through humanity’s long obsession with the end of the world. Part literary histo...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Mittelbau Dora--The Death Camp That Made V-2 Rockets

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  Mittelbau-Dora , located near Nordhausen in central Germany, was one of the most brutal and technically driven camps in the Nazi system. E...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics by David Stipp: The Joy of Understanding!

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  A Most Elegant Equation by David Stipp  is a small book about a large idea: that mathematics, at its deepest level, is not a collection o...
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...