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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Book 6 of 2022: Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

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  I wrote about this book when I read the first half of it late last year. I finished it and like it even more.   I wrote a post about the b...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Book 5 of 2022: How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss

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  Bari Weiss wrote this book soon after the slaughter of Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Weiss grew up i...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Book 4 of 2022: Biography of Fritz Haber, a French Graphic Novel

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Fritz Haber 1. The Spirit of the Times. I just finished the first of three volumes of a graphic novel biography of the German Jewish chemist...
Monday, January 24, 2022

A Healthy Culture Includes All of its History

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The French flag waving in the Arc d'Triomphe de l'Etoile on November 11 Few great cultures have been more self critical than French ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

My Daughter's Book Featured in Lancaster Newspapers

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  My daughter Lauren's book "Amelia's Journey to Find Family" was featured in a review in the Lancaster Newspapers today. ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Book 3 of 2022: The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

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The next American Civil War won't be like the last one--there will not be battle lines and armies.  The next civil war will be a slide i...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Book 2 of 2022: Marie Curie--a graphic novel biography in middle-school-level French

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(In past years I have written an essay about the books I read in the previous year.  As my list of books gets longer and my memory shorter, ...