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Monday, August 28, 2023

A few weeks ago one of my few (only?) remaining readers sent me an email after reading this post, in which I pointed out that yet another example of Never-Trumpers ignoring history, and pretending that the decline of the Republican Party began only when Trump descended that escalator. He suggested I read Profiles in Ignorance, […]

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Book report: The Earth Transformed

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

I just finished reading Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed. I have to admit that it was a bit of a slog, as there’s only so much depressing reading you can do at one time. Still, I highly recommend it as it emphatically brings home the horrors we may face as a result of climate change. […]

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Book report

Friday, February 17, 2023

I’m currently reading Myth America, a collection of essays edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer. I am informed by the cover image on my e-reader that it is or was a New York Times bestseller, a fact of which I was unaware, in part because we can no longer get home delivery of the […]

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Saturday, October 29, 2022

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I accompanied my brother to Hartford to attend the induction ceremonies for the Hartford Public High School Hall of Fame. Needless to say, I was not being inducted, but my brother, the best swimmer HPHS ever saw, was. I can claim credit only for having started the […]

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Book Report

Sunday, January 9, 2022

My professorial son gave me a book for Christmas: Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods. His book choices tend to seem a bit like reading assignments, but they’re usually interesting, and this book certainly is that. It is an examination of the tendency of some humans to bestow godhood, or to worship as gods, ordinary humans. […]

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Monday, October 18, 2021

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The above is attributed to Mark Twain, which is somewhat apt, as he, along with Charles Dudley Warner wrote The Gilded Age. A week or so ago I was perusing the blogs, and read a post by Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money, which, somewhat in […]

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Book Report

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

We returned from a Vermont vacation a few days ago, which explains the absence of posts, though I can rest assured no one cares. Despite the gloomy weather we managed to fill the time, so I didn’t do much reading, but I did continue to make my way through Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, which I finished […]

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A book report of sorts

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

A while back I attended a Zoom seminar hosted by my Alma Mater. The guest presenter was David A. Bell, a professor from Princeton, who was there to talk about his new book Men on Horseback, The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution. It is a study of the role charismatic leaders played […]

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Book report: Evil Geniuses

Saturday, August 29, 2020

This past Sunday the New York Times Book Review featured Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen. It sounded good so I ordered the e-book (I use a Kobo so I can buy through my local bookstore. I avoid Amazon as much as I can) and I’ve been reading it over the last couple of days. I […]

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Book Report and rant, all in one

Friday, May 8, 2020

It is probably fair to say that this nation has not been as divided as it is today since before the Civil War, so, if it’s true that those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it, it is more than advisable to look at the history of that very divided time. […]

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