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Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not...
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Help wanted: These 25 cities are tops for jobs
Charisse Jones, usatoday.com [original article contains videos.]If you think you need to head to a big city on the East or West Coast to find a great job, you might want to think again.Midwestern...
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Want to Unify America? Try College Football - Note for a discussion, "E...
The power of the pigskin and the glue that binds.By JOHN A. BURTKA IV • September 12, 2017, American ConservativeUniversity of Michigan vs Indiana University football, October 2013....
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Big Tech’s Heavy Hand
wsj.comAre companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon ‘shredding’ individuality with their pervasive collection of our individual data? Steven Poole reviews ‘World Without Mind’ by Franklin Foer.image...
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Ten richest counties in America - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Rebecca Lerner , CONTRIBUTOR, Forbesimage from articleOpinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.Here’s one way to follow the money in the United States: look past the Washington Monument...
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Trump Says Jump. His Supporters Ask, How High? - Note for a discussion, "E...
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times, September 14Image from article, with caption: "Signs of love greet President Trump's motorcade as it passes through Lake Charles, La. earlier this monthExcerpt:Michael...
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How to get into Harvard after a certain age/notoriety (and getting paid -- a...
Update: Matthew Haag, "Harvard Revokes Fellowship for Chelsea Manning After Criticism," New York TimesSean Spicer and Chelsea Manning Join Harvard as Visiting FellowsMr. Spicer and Ms. Manning will be...
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America’s Racial Wealth Divide Is Worse Than Thought, Undermining The Middle...
Steven Rosenfeld, nationalmemo.com[original article contains links]uncaptioned image from articleAmerica is heading toward “a racial and economic apartheid state.” As the country becomes more diverse,...
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When History’s Losers Write the Story - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
By SABRINA TAVERNISE SEPT. 15, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: A statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Va.I visited a summer camp in western Russia in July 2015. Its theme was...
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The Ring of Truth
image fromAt some point in the early 1930s, the psychoanalyst Otto Rank gave his lover Anaïs Nin a ring that he had received from his mentor Sigmund Freud. Nin returned the favour with a ring that came...
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The 25 highest-paying jobs in America
usatoday.com [JB Note: academics are not mentioned in this article: see]Courtney Connley, CNBCPublished 10:32 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2017Employers are using a new hiring philosophy to fill their vacancies....
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The Insidious Ideology of Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War - Note for a...
BY ALEX SHEPHARD, New Republic (via LH on FACEBOOK -- Many thanks!) [original article contains links.]September 19, 2017uncaptioned image from articleBurns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many...
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When Dissent Became Treason - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
nybooks.com [JB note: Re WWI and Wilson "propaganda," see also.]Image from article, with caption: Boston police with seized radical literature, November 1919Adam HochschildSEPTEMBER 28, 2017...
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Starting School At The University That Enslaved Her Ancestors
Leah Donnella, Mary Louise Kelly npr.orgImage from article, with caption: Melisande Short-Colomb, 63, is a descendant of slaves sold by the Jesuits to fund Georgetown University. She's enrolled as a...
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Trump’s UN speech: What makes America first - Note for a discussion, "E...
Gary J. Schmitt, aei.orgimage (not from article) fromExcerpt:Americans were Americans not because they occupied some particular place along the Eastern Atlantic seaboard or mostly spoke one language....
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ONE NATION, DIVISIBLE | Struggling Americans Once Sought Greener Pastures—Now...
Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg, Wall Street Journal (August 2, 2017) [original article contains more links/images and charts.]Image from article, with caption: The many lakes around West Branch are a...
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With 'son of a bitch' comments, Trump tried to divide NFL and its players -...
Brian Stelter, money.cnn.com; [On the role of football as a unifying factor in American life, see.]Trump: I wish NFL owners respected US flagThe Trump presidency is a test. Institutions like the...
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Tribalism triumphs in America - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Michael Gerson, Washington PostImage from article, with caption: Counterprotesters argue with supporters of President Trump. In his prescient science-fiction novel “The Diamond Age,” Neal Stephenson...
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Ken Burns’s American War - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post [Original article contains links and more images/video.]Image from article, with caption: Navy fighter pilot John McCain lies on a bed in a Hanoi hospital in 1967 as...
View ArticleA CALL FOR ASSISTANCE BY SOMEONE WITH EXPERIENCE IN AFGHANISTAN AND WITH...
A CALL FOR ASSISTANCE BY SOMEONE WITH EXPERIENCE IN AFGHANISTAN AND WITH AFGHAN CULTURE; via LJB, posted here with his kind ok.Retired FSO [Foreign Service Officer] Sig Cohen is working with a...
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