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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli--The Longer and More Complete Version of The Prince

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  Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy is the book where his real political mind is on full display. The Prince gets all the attention because...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025

KZ--Aussenstelle Walldorf Labor Camp

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  KZ-Außenstelle Walldorf was one of the lesser-known but brutally efficient satellite camps of Natzweiler-Struthof , created during the fin...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

America’s Zombie Democracy: Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity. By George Packer in The Atlantic magazine

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  America’s Zombie Democracy By George Packer in The Atlantic magazine ---- We are living in an authoritarian state. It didn’t feel that wa...

Piranesi, a Novel by Susanna Clarke

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  Susanna Clarke ’s Piranesi is a compact, hypnotic novel written as the journal of a man who calls himself Piranesi—though he does not kno...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Renting a Bike from Olek's Radsport

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While staying in Darmstadt I rented a bicycle at Olek's Radsport in Einhausen. They still rent road bikes, not just city bikes or e-bike...

Berlin Airlift Memorial--Marking the First Major Confrontation of the Cold War

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The Berlin Airlift was the first major confrontation of the Cold War and one of the most audacious logistical operations ever attempted. I...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Majdanek Nazi Death Camp--Horror in Plain Sight

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  Majdanek was unlike any of the other death camps we visited on this trip. The others were hidden in the woods, operating in secret.  Thi...