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A bit of history

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

I have never listened to the music of Hamilton, much less seen the Broadway show, but my reaction to what I heard about the play was always pretty much the same as that of Eric Loomis, over at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I was both mystified and irritated that anyone would portray Hamilton as some […]

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You know, the constitution isn’t really all it’s cracked up to be

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

I know I should still be celebrating Biden’s victory, but, along with John Fogarty, I see a bad moon rising. Kurt Gödel, he of the incompleteness theorem, came to this country from Germany in the thirties, to Princeton, where he was pals with Albert Einstein. When he became a citizen he was anxious to explain […]

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