To paraphrase James Joyce, current events are a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Escapist entertainment is one dodge, and I’m all for it, but I’ve also been reading American history to understand how we got to this … Continue reading
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On this 243rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, are we still an independent, democratic Republic? There’s room for doubt. The 45th president is hosting a Fourth of July celebration for himself worthy of Kim Jong-Un or … Continue reading
D-Day has become a proxy for the remembrance of the entirety of World War II, a great crusade ”to set free a suffering humanity” by men who fought not for conquest, but to end conquest, in the words of FDR’s … Continue reading