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Getting Trump Out of My Brain - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Brooks Aug. 8, 2017, New York TimesBottum [see below] image fromExcerpt:[L]et’s look at our moral culture. For most of American historymainline Protestants — the Episcopalians, Methodists,...
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Asian-American: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
From: JAY CASPIAN KANG, "What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity," New York Timesimage fromExcerpt:“Asian-American’’ is a mostly meaningless...
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How America Lost Its Mind - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Kurt Anderson, The Atlantic; via JF (thank you!) on Facebook [original article contains a video]image from article“You are entitled to your own opinion,but you are not entitled to your own facts.”—...
View ArticleThe Problem with "Soft Power"
The below is a simple thought, not a "scholarly" observation.--Highly-quoted Harvard professor Joseph Nye's "Soft Power" -- a former Defense Department official at the Pentagon in the 90's; this...
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Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity - Note a discussion, "E...
Dan Nidess, Wall Street JournalImage from article, with caption: Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., May 25."How long before the elites decide...
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Rebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying 'secede' - Note for a...
wrcbtv.comImage from article, with caption: Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally in Virginia. Some white Southerners are again advocating for...
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Interest in U.S. diplomatic corps tumbles in early months of Trump
via MM (thank you!) on Facebook Daniel Lippman and Nahal Toosi, Politico [original article contains links]image (not from article) fromThe number of Americans taking the Foreign Service exam has fallen...
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Confederate monuments, more than 700 across USA, aren't budging - Note for a...
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY [original article contains a video]image from articleAfter the church shooting in South Carolina, the old granite Confederate Memorial Fountain that had sat for a century in...
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"People fall off the scaffolds -- Note for a Discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
John BrownAugust 13 at 12:33pm · "People fall off the scaffolds as if they were drunk, into the machines, all the beams topple, all embankments give way, all ladders slip, whatever people carry up...
View ArticleAn imaginary conversation with a six-year-old
Six-year-old: Grandpa, do people die?Grandpa: Yes, they do.Six-year-old: What happens to them when they die?Grandpa: They go to hell or heaven.Six-year-old: And those that don't -- those who don't go...
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Our House Divided - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Ross Douthat, New York Times, August 16, 2017 [original article contains links]Image from article, with caption: In July, members of the Ku Klux Klan protested the planned removal of a statue of Gen....
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Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? Note for a discussion, "E...
Robin Wright, The New Yorker [original article contains links]; see also.The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil...
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"Trump Is More In Touch Than You Think" vs. "New poll: Majority of Americans...
ROD DREHER, "Trump Is More In Touch Than You Think," August 17, 2017, 1:36 PM, American Conservative; via AF on Facebook; compare this article with the one following it [see below] LAURA SANTHANAM,...
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"Seattle Mayor Wants Lenin Statue Removed After Charlottesville"
Mark H. Teeter added 5 new photos. [from Fcebook]26 mins · YES -- ALTHOUGH THERE ARE ALSO TRANSFORMATIVE OPTIONS"Seattle Mayor Wants Lenin Statue Removed After...
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The Verge: Reflections on a Second Civil War
Paul Starobin, americanaffairsjournal.org; via JHF on FacebookThe Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre by François Dubois. “Are We on the Verge of Another Civil War?” So asks The Nation, in a headline for...
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President’s arts and humanities committee resigns over Trump’s...
Edward-Isaac Dovere, politico.com, Via DO on FacebookFirst Lady of the United States Melania Trump serves as the Honorary Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.— First Lady...
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Are We on the Verge of Another Civil War? - Note for a discussion, "E...
The historian David Armitage didn’t intend his new book to be a “handbook for our times.” But that’s just what it is. By Richard Kreitner, FEBRUARY 8, 2017, The NationImage from article, with caption:...
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Why those Confederate soldier statues look a lot like their Union counterparts
washingtonpost.comAt left, a Monumental Bronze Co. sculpture of a Union soldier, erected in Westfield, N.J., in 1889. On the right, a sculpture of a Confederate soldier, by the same company, erected in...
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Trump signs bill authorizing 'Global War on Terrorism Memorial
Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles TimesPresident Trump touted his signing of legislation that provides for the construction of a memorial to U.S. service members who have fought in the so-called war on...
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