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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former Foes, Now Allies! My New Friend Ihor was on the other of the Cold War

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  Ihor Chernik and I in the Cannon Congressional Office Building (Good pun, soldiers in the Cannon building....) Today and tomorrow I am on...
Friday, October 24, 2025

And There Was Light: A biography of President Abraham Lincoln by Jon Meacham

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Jon Meacham ’s And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle is not a sentimental biography. It’s a clear-eyed account of...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis – A Review

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C.S. Lewis ’s The Great Divorce is both a dream-vision and a philosophical fable about eternity. The title, drawn from William Blake ’s T...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times--The 17th Annual Fall Conference of the Hannah Arendt Center

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  “We’re back from Covid ! Finally,” said Christine Gonzalez Stanton , bursting with genuine joy, at the opening of the 17th annual fall con...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger

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Sebastian Junger ’s A Death in Belmont is more than a true-crime account of the Boston Strangler murders — it is a deeply researched medit...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

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  C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces  is his last and his best novel, my favorite of his more than 40 books. (I have read all the books publish...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel

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  In The Elements of Marie Curie , Dava Sobel presents the life of one of the most compelling figures in the history of science. Marie Curie...