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American Power Is on the Wane
What if those Eisenhower boom times were a one-off phenomenon? What if we should get used to modest long-term growth? PAUL KENNEDY, wall street journal Nov. 28, 2016 7:05 p.m. ET Among the many and...
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What's Wrong With Literary Studies?
chronicle.com; via LWM on FacebookSome scholars think the field has become cynical and paranoidBy Marc Parry NOVEMBER 27, 2016In the low-budget realm of humanities grantmaking, a University of Virginia...
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LEAD BOOK REVIEW Siberia: always a byword for despotism
Long before Stalin’s gulags, the Tsars used Siberia’s frozen wastes to bury even the most harmless ‘disreputables’, as Daniel Beer shows in horrific, gripping detailImage from article, with caption:...
View ArticleResearch Note for Narrative (8) -- from the Library of Congress catalog
From the Library of Congress Your search retrieved more records than can be displayed. Only the first 10,000 will be shown.Titles List: 1-25 of 10000 Prev 1 2 3 ... 400 NextSort RelevanceMain...
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Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media
Robert Reich, Common DreamsRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks with reporters on Aug. 29, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: Mark Humphrey/AP)Democracy depends on a free and independent...
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Teeter (on Facebook) re the archive on The Great Terror
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos.7 hrs · "De-Stalinization Despite the State: Russians Take Reconciliation Into Their Own Hands": "Rarely does the publication of a new database crash a website, but...
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Operation Beethoven Fails ...
clickhole.com; via NIM on FacebookThis is truly a black eye for American foreign policy.This is truly a black eye for American foreign policy.The United States has certainly racked up its fair share of...
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The End of the Anglo-American Order
image from articleFor decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?By IAN BURUMA,...
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The Two Americas of 2016 - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
By TIM WALLACENOV. 16, 2016, New York TimesFor many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two.To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary...
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Teaching 1984 in 2016
via AA on FacebookEvery year, one high-school educator converts his classroom into a totalitarian state to teach George Orwell’s book. This year, the lesson feels different.image from articleAndrew...
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The Post-Truth President and U.S. Credibility
image fromlobelog.comby Paul R. Pillar; see also.Just when we may have started to hope that the excesses of Donald Trump’s campaign will give way to a more sober and reasonable mode of behavior once in...
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Internet of stings
Image, with caption: The Brave Little Toaster” by Jon LaingJennifer Howard, " Internet of stings," The Times Literary Supplement; see also John Brown, "The End of Cyber-Utopianism?" Huffington Post...
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Creator of the Big Mac - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
Wall Street JournalJim Delligatti’s burger innovation spread around the world.ENLARGEBig Mac creator Michael "Jim" Delligatti, the Pittsburgh-area McDonald's franchisee who created the Big Mac in 1967,...
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After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over
image (not from article) fromBy Charles Krauthammer Opinion writer December 1 at 7:25 PM, Washington Post; see also Iam Buruma, "The End of the Anglo-American Order," New York TimesTwenty-five years...
View ArticleResearch note for narrative (9): on-going collection of "narrative" samples
Min Zeng, "Report Gives Fed Reason to Be 'Measured' in 2017," in "November Jobs Report: Everything You Need to Know, Wall Street Journal (December 2016):Gary Pollack, head of fixed-income trading at...
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Most important Trump message: It's not what I say, it's what you forget I say.
image fromDon the Don has "understood" several things about so-called "ordinary" Americans (as if there were such species), who are much smarter than the bicoastal "Ivy League" elite (as if there were...
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Moscow-based thinker Teeter on post-truth (via Facebook), with his ok for...
"The Post-Truth World of the Trump Administration Is Scarier Than You Think: The president-elect’s inner circle is now utterly dismissing the existence of...
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Russian Black Bread vs. USA Wonder Bread ?... (via Facebook)
John Brown shared Vrubel Dmitry's post.December 1 at 8:48am · Vrubel DmitryDecember 1 at 7:28am · Lunch in the dining room of a factory in the days of the Soviet Union. · See original · Rate this...
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American football could fall like the gladiators of ancient Rome - Note for a...
image from articleMary Pilon, nypost.com; via GG on FacebookJB comment: Blame me for having spent part of my adolescence in calcio-mad Rome (58-62; well, ok, Romans never really got over their...
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Five myths about the decline and fall of Rome - Note for a discussion, "E...
washingtonpost.com; via LH on Facebook; on Nye's ahistorical scholarship (he's cited below), see.A view of the archaeological area of the Imperial Forums. (Angelo Carconi/EPA)By Nathan Pilkington...
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