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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Sunday, October 11, 2026

A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World by Roger Berkowitz--A Review

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For several months I have anticipated the new book  A World We Share: Hannah Arendt and the Power of Friendship in a Broken World  by Rog...
Friday, July 17, 2026

We: The Forgotten Beginning of the Dystopian Novel

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  I finally read Yevgeny Zamyatin 's We at the urging of a friend, and I am glad I did.  As I was reading, I knew I had found the sourc...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

David Hockney at the Serpentine: Peace in a Place Built for War

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  On a recent visit to London I discovered that the setting of an exhibition can become part of the experience. That was certainly true of D...
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Friday, July 10, 2026

War and Power: Logistics, Industry, and the Reality Behind Victory

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Phillips Payson O'Brien 's War and Power is one of the most thought-provoking books on military history I have read in recent years...
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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...
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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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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...