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Showing posts with label 500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 500. Show all posts
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 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...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Buy or Rent? I Bought a Bike Right Next to the Panama Canal

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  My second day in Panama, I bought a Giant SCR 16-speed aluminum road bike.  I bought the bike for $500 at a used bike shop in a residentia...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

In Terror of Ducatis on Sestriere: My First Climb in the Italian Alps

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In 2000, I made the first several climbs up to the Sestriere ski resort .  It was a beautiful September day as I toiled the seven-mile clim...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

How to Tell If You're a Left Anti-Semite: A Checklist by Ben Wittes of Lawfare

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The last few weeks have been rough. Your Jewish friends have been extra needy. It’s not enough that you support their right to own land and ...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Hannah Arendt Center Summer Social: Preview of Fall Conference on Friendship and Politics

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This week I went to the Summer Social at the Hannah Arendt Center on the campus of Bard College .  The campus is set in rolling wooded hill...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Tank Museum Designed as a Warning: Panzer Museum East, Denmark

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Most military museums, particularly tank museums, display the best and most lethal weapons of their country. Part of the intent of these mus...