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Monday, November 24, 2025

On Democracy and Death Cults by Douglas Murray – A Review

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Douglas Murray ’s On Democracy and Death Cults  is not a book that aims to comfort. It is a blunt, fact-driven, deeply unsettling examinatio...

Paris Bike Co.--The Place to Rent a Bike in Paris

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  I found Paris Bike Co. in 2019 the way most good things are found abroad—an internet search that kept turning up the same message: “Highly...
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...