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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
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 ...
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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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations and the Moral Backbone of the American Founders

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  When Marcus Tullius Cicero retreated to his villa at Tusculum in 45 B.C., he was a man in mourning. His daughter Tullia had died, the R...
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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...