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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Books of 2023, Part 1

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With just two weeks before the year ends, I should finish my usual fifty books in 52 weeks. I am currently at 47, but very close to the end ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Eternal Hell Does Not Exist: Says David Bentley Hart and I Agree

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  In the book That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell and Eternal Salvation,  the Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart asserts that there is...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Henry Kissenger and The Nazi Pope: Long Lives Addicted to Power

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Two terrible twins in my mind and probably no one else's are Henry Kissenger and Pope Pius XII, the pope who bowed to the Nazis to prese...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Austria 1938--The Sudden Betrayal

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  In September I walked through this square in the center of Vienna where Hitler spoke from a balcony announcing the Anschluss   (joining) o...
Friday, December 1, 2023

On Tyranny 1

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Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given in times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more...
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

The Prince, Chapter 23, Avoiding Flatterers

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  The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, Chapter 23   In What Mode Flatterers are to be Avoided  [Translated by Harvey Mansfield] I do not want...
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

Nigel's 24th Birthday

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  Nigel turns 24 today My youngest child and youngest son is Nigel Garrison Gussman. He was born November 19, 1999, in Pittsburgh where he l...