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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former Foes, Now Allies! My New Friend Ihor was on the other of the Cold War

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  Ihor Chernik and I in the Cannon Congressional Office Building (Good pun, soldiers in the Cannon building....) Today and tomorrow I am on...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt ’s The Life of the Mind —left unfinished at her death in 1975—explores what it means to live a reflective human life. Though o...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Ten Central Beliefs of Christian Nationalists

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Ten Central Beliefs of Christian Nationalists 1. America is a Christian Nation – The U.S. was founded explicitly as a Christian country, and...
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Monday, September 15, 2025

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ’s August 1914 is the first volume of his The Red Wheel cycle of novels an epic attempt to explain how Russia slid ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Review of In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In the First Circle by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sharpens the vast world of his Gulag Archipelago  into the story of one vile aspect of a ho...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Virgil Got Eternally Screwed: Review of Dante’s Purgatorio (Mark Musa Translation)

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Dante’s Purgatorio , in contrast with the fire and fury of Inferno and Roman splendor of Paradiso , is the canticle of hope. It is the most...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald ’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges thro...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Man Called Intrepid: How Intelligence Kept Britain Alive in World War II

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  William Stevenson ’s A Man Called Intrepid tells the story of Sir William Stephenson , the Canadian who became Britain’s intelligence ch...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Talking Electric Cars in a Rural Massachusetts Restaurant

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  I'm in Providence RI for the week.  My wife is at a math conference. I am riding and visiting friends here and in Boston.  Yesterday I...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Friend, New List of Favorite Books

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Joseph Brodsky around 1970.  A new friend here in Panama, a cyclist, Yogi, and round-the-world-sailor named Roger, asked me for a list of bo...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

"Never Eat With Dirty Hands" Advice I Didn't Follow

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  In the 10th grade at Stoneham High School near Boston our biology teacher, Sonia Jones, told us "Never eat with dirty hands!" Sh...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

For the Sweep of History, Read New Books First

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Asked about the five books someone should read to get a broad view of the history of the world, the historian Walter Russell Mead said we sh...