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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books

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  Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

America's 250th Anniversary vs. the Bicentennial

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  My tank, Bad Bitch, on a tank trail on Fort Carson, Colorado , July 1976. On July 4th 1976 I was in a tank in the desert training area on ...
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Friday, June 19, 2026

Nazi Death Camps and C.S. Lewis

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Emily, Me and Cliff Since 2017, I have visited sixteen different Nazi death camps in Germany, Poland, Czechia and France.  A few of them twi...
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Friday, June 12, 2026

Elegy in Blue: Mark Helprin Still Believes in Heroes

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Reading Mark Helprin ’s Elegy in Blue feels like visiting an old friend, a friend who is clearly aging, (as am I) but still his brilliant s...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Stalingrad: War and Peace for the Twentieth Century

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Vasily Grossman ’s Stalingrad is an ambitious novel, and remarkably, it succeeds in its vast ambition. When Grossman set out to tell the st...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Everything Must Go: A Review

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Dorian Lynskey ’s Everything Must Go is a fascinating tour through humanity’s long obsession with the end of the world. Part literary histo...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Mittelbau Dora--The Death Camp That Made V-2 Rockets

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  Mittelbau-Dora , located near Nordhausen in central Germany, was one of the most brutal and technically driven camps in the Nazi system. E...