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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Bilingual Books and the Challenge of Lifelong Learning

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More than a decade ago in a Paris bookstore I picked up French-Greek edition of The Gospel of John, Jean Evangile: traduit du grec, preface ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy--The World Changed The Month It Was Published

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  On September 10 of the year just passed Bernard-Henri Levy published his new book Israel Alone .  I have read several of Levy's books ...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Tribe by Sebastian Junger -- The Ancient Roots of Many Problems of the Modern World

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In October, I went a conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism .  The first and featured speaker was Sebastian Junger , author of seven bo...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

The French Roots of Sinatra's "I Did It My Way"

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In November 1968, Frank Sinatra told his friend and collaborator Paul Anka that he was tired and ready to give up show business. Sinatra had...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

"Never Eat With Dirty Hands" Advice I Didn't Follow

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  In the 10th grade at Stoneham High School near Boston our biology teacher, Sonia Jones, told us "Never eat with dirty hands!" Sh...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

For the Sweep of History, Read New Books First

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Asked about the five books someone should read to get a broad view of the history of the world, the historian Walter Russell Mead said we sh...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

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In the hopeful world of self-help books the reader is drawn into the possibility of changing her life for the better.  We  could all be thin...