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Obama’s Visit to Cuba Spells the End of a Grotesque Amusement Park
Tom Zoellner, zocalopublicsquare.orgThe Island’s Opening Will Deny American White-Collar Subversives Their Once Forbidden Fruitimage from articleAs every librarian or pornographer knows, one of the...
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American "polarization": billionaire (buzzword of the electoral season)?
As I ponder why the USA is currently politically divided, I think I have a too-easy, "capsule" answer: image fromSome people, the least economically fortunate, admire billionaires (Trump supporters),...
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From vacuum cleaner to Ambassador: Are there any differences?
... [A distinguised ambassador on Facebook]: You mentioned an old Electrolux vacuum cleaner a while back. I found this picture of me servicing one. ... I was 17....John Brown From servicing a vacuum...
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Wolff: Trump as the Great White Hope -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 8:45 a.m. EDT March 28, 2016Trump image from articleA significant part of modern journalism focuses on minorities who in the past might otherwise have seemed invisible to...
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The Neanderthals, the Denisovans and Us
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 28, 2016, New York Timesimage fromIt’s been nearly 160 years since we Homo sapiens, or “wise people,” first got aninkling through Charles Darwin and the discovery of...
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God Is a Question, Not an Answer
By William Irwin March 26, 2016 2:30 pm, New York Timesimage fromNear end of Albert Camus’s existentialist novel “The Stranger,” Meursault,the protagonist, is visited by a priest who offers him comfort...
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The U.S. according to NYC: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
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Arizona’s voting outrage is a warning to the nation - Note for a lecture, "E...
Washington Post People wait in line to vote at the Environmental Education Center in Chandler, Ariz., on March 22. (David Kadlubowski/The Arizona Republic via Associated Press)By E.J. Dionne Jr....
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Let American "public diplomacy" publicize the below to the world, as to...
Washingtonians, inhabitants of the so-called capital of the free world, don't have a voting member in Congress ... Can you imagine how Parisians, Londoners, Moscovites, Mexico-City Mexicans -- name...
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The rise of the ‘gentleman’s A’ and the GPA arms race
[Note: Perhaps the great increase in non-tenured "adjuncts" on USA campuses and grade inflation could be correlated. Adjuncts have the most to gain (or, better said, lose, like their underpaid...
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Who’s ‘They’?
Who’s ‘They’?First WordsBy AMANDA HESS MARCH 29, 2016, New York Timesimage from articleWe are witnessing a great explosion in the way that human beings are allowedto express their gender identities. We...
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Who Are the Angriest Republicans? Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Thomas B. Edsall MARCH 30, 2016, New York Times [original article contains links]uncaptioned image from articleConservatives who once derided upscale liberals as latte-sipping losers now burstwith...
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No self-respecting adult should buy comics or watch superhero movies
Rhymer Rigby, telegraph.co.uk; via AK on Facebookimage from article, with caption: The Joker knows the scoreAnother month, another superhero movie staggers to the silver screen, lurching under the...
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Billington Fellowship
Billington FellowshipThe Kennan Institute seeks applicants from scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past 10 years for the newly established Billington Fellowship to conduct research on...
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Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden Provided FBI with secret method of unlocking...
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The "Untied" United States: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Elliot Smilowitz, thehill.comGreg NashFormer presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Tuesday misspelled "United States" [the "Untied States"] in a letter in which he asked not to have his delegates...
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Income inequality is not out of control - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Aparna Mathur, aei.orgimage (not from article) fromThe full picture of income and resources shows inequality is not as bad as the doomsayers claim.Many believe that the debate around income inequality...
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The American and British American Constitutions - Note for a lecture, "E...
image fromThe happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. --James MadisonA Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American...
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Scenes of the Crimes [review of book on Stalin]
Paul Goldberg, New York Timesimage from AmazonTHE UNQUIET GHOST Russians Remember Stalin. By Adam Hochschild. Illustrated. 304 pp. New York: Viking. $22.95.In 1937, the secret police of the Siberian...
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On mallard ducks and reincarnation ..
image from (female mallard,left; male right)Mallard ducks are a near-daily, and most pleasant, sight in Rock Creek Park (Northwest Washington, D.C.), where I pretend to "jog" (neighbors have...
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