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  • Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution

    10 Oct 2019

      Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that,…

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  • The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

    17 Jul 2019

      I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such…

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  • The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras

    01 May 2019

      Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…

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  • Resistance and Subversion in Literature and Movies

    20 Nov 2018

      We like our stories of resistance to great evil to include bold cunning, great daring and a good complement…

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  • Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier

    27 Sep 2018

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  • The Doomsday Machine: Daniel Ellsberg — This is Not Fiction

    08 Aug 2018

    So, you like scary stories? Something to keep you awake and afraid?  Here’s one for you: not thieves in the…

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  • The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th

    06 Aug 2018

      Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human…

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  • Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb

    23 May 2018

    The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind…

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  • The Kaiser’s Coolies — German Sailors in WWI

    13 Apr 2018

    Though   All Quiet on the Western Front,          1929, made Erich Maria Remarque far and away the…

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  • Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?

    14 Mar 2018

    Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the…

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  • American Empire: Going Across the Waters

    23 Feb 2018

      Those of us who have spent anytime at all in Hawaii, usually on vacation, enjoying the fine weather, the…

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  • The Battle Cry of Freedom — The Beginnings of the Civil War

    18 Jan 2018

      In these years when many have worried aloud about a neo-civil war brewing between American shores it is somewhat…

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