Sunday, July 21, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “Hemingway” (PBS)

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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...
Monday, July 15, 2024

A review of “20th Century European Philosophy” (audiobook)

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I already thought that twentieth-century Western philosophy was a vast wasteland, before I ever listened to this audiobook. But I listened t...
Friday, July 12, 2024

A review of Henry David Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience” (audiobook)

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“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and system...
Friday, July 5, 2024

A review of PBS’s “The Circus” (American Experience)

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PBS did a four-hour television history of the circus (and they weren’t clowning around) … In 2017,  Hollywood  released a movie that reminde...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Calvin Coolidge: One of our greatest presidents

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Wikipedia gets the presidency of Calvin Coolidge badly and wildly wrong … Calvin Coolidge may be one of the greatest presidents in America...
Monday, July 1, 2024

A review of “The Spanish-American War” (audiobook)

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The Spanish-American War started out as one of the most popular wars in  American history . It was only long after the fact that it started ...