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Tuesday, March 10, 2026

"Until August" by Gabriel García Márquez: A Review

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  Gabriel García Márquez ’s Until August ( En agosto nos vemos ), published more than a decade after his death, is a slender, lovely final ...

Women in Their Element: Selected Women’s Contributions to the Periodic System by Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Editors)

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  The periodic table is often presented as a clean grid of discovery—elements appearing one by one through the insight of famous chemists. ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

America and the Cost of Abandoning Allies

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  Kurds in Iraq, Turkey and Syria have been  staunch allies of the US and then we abandon them Wars rarely begin where we think they do. Th...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Sparks and Photons: Two Visions of an Electrical World

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  Two very different books — Daniel Keown ’s The Spark in the Machine and Richard Feynman ’s QED — begin from the same fascinating premise...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Geography Is Destiny — and Britain’s Fate Is Not What It Thinks

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  In Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris returns to familiar ground for readers of Why the West Rules, for Now and War! : the long...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial

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  Perched on the slopes of Mont Valérien just west of Paris , the Suresnes American Cemetery is the only American military cemetery from t...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Why I Am No Longer a Democrat

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  Torch carrying Nazis at the Unite the Right Rally In 2017, torch-carrying neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not rep...
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