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Saturday, June 24, 2023

Protesting an Anti-Abortion Rally on Independence Mall

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  On June 24 on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, a Catholic Group celebrated the one-year anniversary of their victory in overturning Roe ...
Monday, June 19, 2023

"Living," a Movie About Dying Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Is there a better short story in the world than Leo Tolstoy 's The Death of Ivan Ilych ?  If there is, I never read it.   When my favori...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Blackberry: The Movie--A Nerd Fest and Tragedy

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 In 2001 my career moved from the corporate world to non-profits. Had I remained in corporate, I would have had a Blackberry--the smartphone...
Friday, June 9, 2023

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  After watching "Succession" on HBO, I watched "Generation Kill" for maybe the third or fourth time since it debuted i...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

The English Revolution Re-Examined in a New Book: Spoiler Alert! The Religious Hate was Real

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Oliver Cromwell with the head of Charles I In a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine, Adam Gopnik reviews a new book about the English Re...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond: Honoring Confederate War Dead without Flags and Racism

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Pyramid honoring Confederate dead  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. On this Memorial Day Weekend, my 51st as a soldier and veteran, I went ...
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...