Category: History
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What rough beast?
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Unfortunately, the machinery of governance was big and spooky and dangerous and the only people who knew which…
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Moody madness laughing wild
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When things don’t work out, peasants revolt, voters flock to the polls, oppressed minorities throw themselves on the…
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Blood on the tracks
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I am of the age at which I can occasionally begin a sentence with “In my day …”…
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The Barbarians at the Gates
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Last Tuesday, in a California courtroom, a judge sentenced 23-year-old Casey Nocket to two years’ probation and 200…
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Words that Kill
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In the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting last weekend we’ve seen an outpouring of support and solidarity…
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Strange Bedfellows
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“The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other…
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Courage
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Frustrated ISIS militants holding the city of Palmyra yesterday beheaded 82-year-old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad. When Islamic State fighters…
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Nothing if not critical …
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It’s easy to forget sometimes that the work of creating art is not like putting in a new…
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An insane pronouncement
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Mars and Jupiter needed to stop dead and then go backward from time to time; eclipses could only…
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Links
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It always amazes and amuses me to see how a whole nest of unconnected obsessions can manage to…
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