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Monday, April 20, 2026

My Mascot Life

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  I just gave away the tuxedo I bought in 2004. I hadn’t worn it since 2013, so it felt like time to let it go to a better home. Over the ye...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Carl Lutz, Visas for Life, and Eric Saul

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Eric Saul (tall man in the middle) at Arch Street Friends Meeting House At the end of March I went to a presentation titled: Visas For Life...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Yiyang Zhuge: Translating Hannah Arendt Across Worlds

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  Yiyang Zhuge translator of Hannah Arendt and Plutarch At a recent conversation hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City, Roger ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Hoping Against Facts: Belief in Progress

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  The end of the Cold War seemed, for a brief moment, to vindicate the modern belief in progress. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

War! What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris

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War! What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris is alone among thousands of books on war written in recent decades—not because it celebrates or ju...
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...