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Black and Proud. Even if Strangers Can’t Tell - Note for a discussion, "E...
By REBECCA CARROLL, APRIL 1, 2017, New York Timesimage from articleMy 11-year-old is understated, but not shy. He likes to bake, loves video games, isloyal to his friends and, biased as I may be, is a...
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Video: Imagining the Fall of the American Empire - Note for a discussion, "E...
Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. @jhuworldcrisis, audioboom.comHadrian Wall image from entry [see also]image from04-01-2017Imagining the Fall of the American Empire. Michael Michael Vlahos, Naval War...
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Is the American Dream killing us? Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post; see also.An American flag on March 7 in Washington. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)By Robert J. Samuelson April 2 at 8:01 PM It isn’t often that economics...
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There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts
Caroline Fredrickson, theatlantic.com [original article contains links]Image from article, with caption: A graduate student grades essays on his computer on the campus of UC Berkeley in 2011.In early...
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'visceral' 18-hour TV history - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Fiachra Gibbons, yahoo.comFilmmaker Ken Burns, pictured in 2014, has filmed an 18-hour television documentary on the Vietnam War MoreLegendary US documentary maker Ken Burns's new 18-hour television...
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Revealed: Self-styled 'grammar vigilante' corrects badly punctuated shop...
telegraph.co.uk; see also.The anonymous crusader roams Bristol at night with the 'Apostrophiser' - a long-handled tool he created to reach the highest signs CREDIT: BBC POINTS WEST/SWNS Harry Yorke,...
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International exchange programs are vital to America's security
Ilir Zherka, thehill.comuncaptioned image from articleThe Trump administration has proposed cuts in FY18 of 28 percent to the State Department, with much deeper cuts likely to the Bureau for...
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Eating at your desk? Your cubemates may be seething - Note for a discussion,...
Matthew Diebel, USATODAYimage from articleIt would happen like clockwork. At 8:10 every morning. A former coworker would arrive and unpeel a sandwich he had picked up at a local food truck.A fried egg...
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Should America Have Entered World War I?
By MICHAEL KAZIN APRIL 6, 2017, New York Times; see alsoJohn Brown, "Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War."Image from article, with caption: Army recruits filled a...
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The Twilight of White Christianity
Wiliam McGurn, wsj.comimage from articleWhy the most ardent racial nationalists are becoming increasingly secular.A specter is haunting America—the specter of white Christian nationalism. If you are...
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A World Unsafe for Democracy
Bret Stephens, wsj.comImage from article, with caption: Police detain a demonstrator during a protest in Moscow, March 26Freedom rests on wings of butterflies—and the moral confidence of America.This...
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Another nice little war?
from Facebook; see also.John Brown11 mins · Here comes another "nice little war" (of course, morally "insured," given the atrocity stories) to spare the President of domestic criticism? (Remember V-N,...
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"Seen on the Web" (#63) -- Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy
John Brown "Seen on the Web" (#63) -- Strategic Communications and Public DiplomacyDonald Bishop Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:53 PMStrategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seem on the Web” (#63)April 6,...
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Lessons from Hitler’s Rise
[JB note: Nothing particularly brilliant about this workmanlike piece, but I suppose in its own modest way it is "reassuring" ...]Christopher R. BrowningAPRIL 20, 2017 ISSUEHitler: Ascent 1889–1939by...
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The biggest non-government employer in each U.S. state - Note for a...
vividmaps.com; via RB on FacebookThe biggest non-government employer in each U.S. state; via RB on FacebookJB question: But is not the University of California government-funded?
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‘The Great War’ Review: Life on the Home Front
wsj.com; see also (1) (2)On PBS, a docuseries with a heavy focus on the war’s impact on economic life, race relations and more.American troops cheering in Russia at the end of the war PHOTO: LIBRARY OF...
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What’s Become of the American Dream? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
By PEGGY NOONAN, Wall Street JournalPart of the problem is definitional. It isn’t just about houses, cars and material prosperity.uncaptioned image from articleApril 6, 2017 7:27 p.m. ETI want to think...
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American Revolution Ideas - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
alphahistory.comImage from entry, with caption: Drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776The ideas of the American Revolution came largely from three sources: the European Enlightenment,...
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Taxes -- The great uniter? - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Washington PostIRS instruction booklets for Form 1040 individual tax returns. Tax Day this year is April 18. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)By Robert J. Samuelson April 9 at 8:39 PMAs Tax Day — April 18...
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Inquiring Minds: Delving into the Library’s Jazz Collections
April 7, 2017 by Wendi Maloney, blogs.loc.gov; via MS on linkedinLarry Appelbaum, left, with Ingrid Monson in the Whittall Pavilion on March 1. Photo by Michael Turpin.Ingrid Monson is the Quincy Jones...
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