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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Treblinka Nazi Death Camp

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  After visiting the Chelmno Death Camp, Emily and Cliff and I drove to the Treblinka Death Camp, located about 80 kilometers northeast of W...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Chelmno Nazi Death Camp

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 Yesterday, I visited Chelmno , known in German as Kulmhof , the first Nazi death camp established for the systematic extermination of Jews....
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Anselm Kiefer in the Panthéon--The first major new art installation in the Pantheon in a century

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  I returned to the Panthéon after previous visits over the past decade, to see the first new art exhibit in crypt of the Republic in a ce...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations and the Moral Backbone of the American Founders

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  When Marcus Tullius Cicero retreated to his villa at Tusculum in 45 B.C., he was a man in mourning. His daughter Tullia had died, the R...
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...