2021
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Wear gloves, Mr. Orwell
Stranded British truckers, barred from entering the EU when COVID tests failed to arrive, lined up to spell out their…
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Rage all around
Gerald Ford pardoned former President Richard Nixon soon after he resigned, producing a wave of outrage. It is painful to…
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Many too few (a provocation)
Promises, promises…. Let’s for the sake of all that’s provocative and profane toss a bucket of chilled blood on enlightened…
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Papers!
Krakow, Poland, 1940: Occupiers often asked for papers or documents, and the demand rarely came with a “please,” except to…
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Old mob, new rules
Actress Gina Carano, ousted from her “Star Wars” role for a Tweet. Jews were beaten in the streets, not by…
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When systems still mattered
Berlin, 1945: The beginning of a half-century standoff in which neither side could hide. Two fairly recent and unrelated global…
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Make room for Yuri
Leave my name out of it… Our Solar System was the only one with a planet named Yuri. This important…
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Of knives and fire
Some memories seem not to belong to one’s own life, but rather as details from a youth spent on some…
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Wiring up the plot
From the Italian perspective, someone or something mysterious (the “Illuminati?”) is forever messing with the world’s lighting. My favorite COVID…
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The hot breasts of yesteryear
Hot teats? Not quite…. Here was the problem, I explained to the technician some forty years ago. My Rome apartment,…
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Dog days
The summer wasteland known as Rome. These are the dog days of Rome’s traditionally scalding summers. It is hotter than…
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Fratello
Life comes, brightens, glows, dims, and finally vanishes — the most natural of sequences. My brother died on September 16…
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On a stalled planet
Only the British have suggested keeping a stiff upper lip amid the two-year pandemic, writes the author, but another Churchill…
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Ash to ash
Thomas Mann, Flaubert, and Gogol are not visible in this image, In the years before his death earlier this year…
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Fraternal heretics
When it comes to public places and the workplace, Italy says Green Pass, proof of a negative COVID test, or…
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Awoking
Long before the spirit of “woke,” a “protective reaction” over Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Iwoke recently from a protracted…
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Cave-car Rome
Corona has ushered in a new system of segregation, the clean and the unclean. Acardiologist is interrupted mid-visit with a…
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Rome: Not with a bang but a whimper
The Spanish Steps on March 11, 2020: For those who dare (and can still travel), a chance to see a…
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Too deep
Efforts to save Alfredo Rampi turned into a black carnival as hundreds crowded the scene. This report was first published…
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