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Friday, March 27, 2026

Review: Organic Nomenclature and the Discipline of Naming

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  There are few books more practical—or more quietly transformative—than Organic Nomenclature by James G. Traynham . It is not a glamorous ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Hannah Arendt and the Illusion of Progress

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"On Violence" is one of the essays in the book Crises of the Republic  by Hannah Arendt   In her essay On Violence , Hannah Arendt...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Reading Moby-Dick After a (Late) Life at Sea (Mostly in Books)

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Few novels have the global reputation of Moby Dick . Readers around the world consider it a monument of American literature —a small ship ci...
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Friday, March 13, 2026

Geography, War, and Power: Ian Morris’s Grand Argument

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  Across Why the West Rules, for Now, War! What Is It Good For? , and Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris advances one of the most...
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...