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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
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...
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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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 ...
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Friday, March 27, 2026

Review: Organic Nomenclature and the Discipline of Naming

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  There are few books more practical—or more quietly transformative—than Organic Nomenclature by James G. Traynham . It is not a glamorous ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Reading Moby-Dick After a (Late) Life at Sea (Mostly in Books)

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Few novels have the global reputation of Moby Dick . Readers around the world consider it a monument of American literature —a small ship ci...
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Friday, March 13, 2026

Geography, War, and Power: Ian Morris’s Grand Argument

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  Across Why the West Rules, for Now, War! What Is It Good For? , and Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris advances one of the most...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

"Until August" by Gabriel García Márquez: A Review

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  Gabriel García Márquez ’s Until August ( En agosto nos vemos ), published more than a decade after his death, is a slender, lovely final ...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Geography Is Destiny — and Britain’s Fate Is Not What It Thinks

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  In Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris returns to familiar ground for readers of Why the West Rules, for Now and War! : the long...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Why I Am No Longer a Democrat

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  Torch carrying Nazis at the Unite the Right Rally In 2017, torch-carrying neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not rep...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Musée Marmottan Monet: History, Collection, and Serene Beauty

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 Tucked away in Paris's 16th arrondissement , the Musée Marmottan Monet is one of city's quietly beautiful museums. It lacks the cr...