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Make room for Yuri
Read more: Make room for YuriLeave my name out of it… Our Solar System was the only one with a planet named Yuri. This important piece of information emerged from Mrs. Patil, the third-grade teacher who had married an Indian I imagined as Sitting Bull, since at the time the only Indians I paid much…
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When systems still mattered
Read more: When systems still matteredBerlin, 1945: The beginning of a half-century standoff in which neither side could hide. Two fairly recent and unrelated global transformations, one ideological, the other technological, are responsible for facilitating the at-times outsized reaction to the now year-old corona crisis. The first of these transformations was the 1989-90 unraveling of…
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Old mob, new rules
Read more: Old mob, new rulesActress Gina Carano, ousted from her “Star Wars” role for a Tweet. Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors… even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round…
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Papers!
Read more: Papers!Krakow, Poland, 1940: Occupiers often asked for papers or documents, and the demand rarely came with a “please,” except to women. With countless restrictive measures, intended ostensibly to curb the corona virus emergency, has come a corresponding surge in what a colleague attentively calls petty tyrannies. Emboldened bureaucrats of all…
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Many too few (a provocation)
Read more: 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 thinking. Let’s do as T.S. Eliot suggested before trying to read a literary poem, namely suspend disbelief and dissociate oneself from commonplace sensibilities. Let’s assume you have a thrilling if…
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Rage all around
Read more: Rage all aroundGerald Ford pardoned former President Richard Nixon soon after he resigned, producing a wave of outrage. It is painful to behold the United States at this moment, painful to the point of heartbreak. For four years, Donald Trump basted the country and those he disliked in an unending litany of…
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