Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. Begun four years earlier with patriotic zeal, it ended in bleak exhaustion, having … Continue reading
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I have spent the last two weeks in a Vietnam of the mind, watching the latest Ken Burns documentary. I’d like to say it brought the era back to life or that I learned a lot, but the indelible mark … Continue reading