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A Fictional (So Far) History of the Second American Civil War - Note for a...
By Justin Cronin, April 20, New York Times Review of AMERICAN WAR By Omar El Akkad 333 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.image from articleNationalistic movements blooming across Europe, sectarian violence...
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A fraternity was told it was ‘appropriating culture.’ Administrators won’t...
washingtonpost.comThe University Labyrinth on the American University campus in Washington. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer April 20 at 3:05 PM Don’t blame college...
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Cherokee Nation Sues Walmart, others over illegal opioids - Note for a...
Josh Saul, newsweek.com; see also.Image from, with caption: "Flag of the Cherokee Nation"Updated| Walmart, Walgreens and CVS Health are among the targets of a lawsuit filed Thursday by the Cherokee...
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To Stay Married, Embrace Change - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Ada Calhoun, New York Times [original article contains links]; see also re change as a suggested "unifying" factor in American life.image from articleA couple of years ago, it seemed as if everyone I...
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Tenured DC Professors and intellectual generosity re a piece on the...
I've never pretended to be an intellectual, just yet another Princeton Ph.D interested in ideas.When I tried to share ideas with tenured academics at local DC universities on the origins of American...
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A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues...
Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times [original article contains links and additional illustrations]Image from article, with caption: A parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, believed...
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Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?
BBCBy Caroline Bullock.Technology of Business reporter21 April 2017 From the sectionBusinessThese are external links and will open in a new windowShare this with Facebook Share this with Twitter...
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"All men are created equal" vs. "the merciless Indian Savages" - Note for a...
An 18th century depiction of the casta racial classification system created by the Spanish. The painting is in the Museo de Virreinato, Tepozotlan; image fromFrom the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
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The Business-School Boondoggle
The Business-School Boondoggle“The Golden Passport” [see also] by Duff McDonald is a deliciously iconoclastic history of Harvard Business School.Image from article, with caption: Commencement...
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The average student loan debt in every state
Christine DiGangi, Credit.com, USA TODAY [original article contains links]image from articleIt was big news when outstanding student loan debt surpassed credit card debt and then later exceeded $1...
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Good Riddance to Confederate Monuments - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
[JB note: This article deals with a very tricky (perplexing) question about how to deal with history -- which is merciless, is it not? If we "forget" history by"hiding" it in museums, will it resurface...
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The restaurant industry overindulged — and now it’s paying the price
washingtonpost.comBy Sarah Halzack April 28 at 12:55 PM A meal from Subway. (Seth Wenig/AP)Last year was a disastrous one for Chipotle, as the burrito behemoth grappled with the fallout from a food...
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A Facebook query on the "liquidation" of Russian ...
John Brown11 mins · A query to Facebook "Friends" (friends -- talk about an overused word-- if there ever was one -- by the essentially anonymous "social" media; true friendship of course goes far...
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Lavrov-Tillerson: a fraught relationship
whirledview.typepad.comBy Patricia H KushlisI was appalled when I watched the video clip of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s ill-mannered behavior towards US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the...
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Why are Six U.S. Senators Bolstering Thugs in the Balkans?
Maxim Tucker, newsweek.comSkopje, Macedonia: Five minutes after we meet in a hotel, Vasko Lazarevski whips out his cell phone to show me the latest threat sent to his Facebook account.“We will strike...
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Why Americans Smile So Much
OLGA KHAZAN, theatlantic.com [original article contain more illustration and a chart]How immigration and cultural values affect what people do with their facesOn Reddit forums that ask “What’s a dead...
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Let’s Take Exception to the Term ‘American Exceptionalism’ - Note for a...
wsj.comPHOTO: ISTOCKIt started in 1929 as a communist ‘heresy’ before becoming a ‘conviction’ and then a mere ‘story.ByJuliana Geran PilonApril 28, 2017 6:12 p.m. ETIn a recent speech, former U.N....
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Eliot A. Cohen, theatlantic.comHis idea that the country’s interests and its values are two separate things—the first mandatory, the second optional—reflects a misreading of the past.On May 3rd...
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McAlister: Ignorance of history from the top down - Note for a discussion, "E...
news-journal.com"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."— Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B. C.), Roman statesman and oratorIt is safe to say the president is...
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