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Monday, August 14, 2023

Revisiting the Line Between Good and Evil

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More than three decades ago, I read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This short book brought him out of obsc...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Masha Gessen Wins 2023 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking

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  Masha Gessen at the annual conference of the  Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College  Activist and writer Masha Gessen has won the 2023 Hann...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Museum of American Armor, Long Island, New York: Model Collection

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  In addition to the big collection of armored vehicles at the Museum of American Armor in Long Island, the museum has an impressive collec...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Museum of American Armor, Bethpage, Long Island, New York

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  Thirty miles west of Manhattan on Long Island is the Museum of American Armor . This collection of mostly World War II armor and equipment...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Eternal Life in Very Different Novels

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I just read the novel Eternal Life by Dara Horn. It is a dark, captivating beautiful story of a little girl in Jerusalem at the time Jesus ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Teenager Escapes The Holocaust; Joins the US Army; Returns to Europe to Bring Nazis to Justice

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  Since 2016, I have read a lot of books and articles about The Holocaust, visited nine Nazi death camps and many Holocaust memorials. Last ...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

A Deplorable Comment

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Trump worshippers adoring their despicable deity  Most of the comments I get on blog posts are in emails or phone calls or texts or on Faceb...