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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Visiting the Curie Museum in Paris

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The Pierre and Marie Curie Museum —tucked quietly into the old Radium Institute on the campus of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Pa...
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...