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Friday, December 17, 2021

Civilization by Niall Ferguson

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Civilization: The West and the Rest is the 10th of the 15 books  Niall Ferguson has written between 1995 and 2021  I love one-volume histor...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Thomas Jefferson and the First Draft of History

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham There is only one actual version of the past, but there are endless interpretations of ev...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Loving Resistance Fighter

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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Nearly three decades, more than a decade before Facebook was a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Air Speed Versus Ground Speed on a Bicycle

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  Riding around the airstrip at Camp Adder, Iraq One afternoon in Iraq in 2009, I decided to ride to supper from the motor pool on a day wit...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Talking About Mysteries and the Pandemic with a Writer of a Pandemic Mystery

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Alison Joseph At the beginning my recent trip to Europe I had lunch with the mystery writer Alison Joseph and her husband Tim Boon, head of ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Lunch in Paris Talking NASCAR!!

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Nita Wiggins, author of Civil Rights Baby and I  at the Red Wheelbarrow bookstore in Paris In July of this year, I met professor Nita Wiggin...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

September 11, 1944 in Darmstadt Brandnacht or "Fire Night"

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  A series of signs in the center of Darmstadt describe Brandnacht translated "Fire Night." On that night thousands died and more ...