February 26, 2022
A Cruel and Suicidal Decision--A Humanitarian Disaster
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I am reading a book written decades ago which expresses how I feel this morning about Putin's catastrophically wrong and cruel decisio...
February 5, 2022
What is Patriotism--What Does It Depend on?
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Yale Professor Steven B. Smith’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, was heavy going in the beginning for me. An abundan...
February 4, 2022
Words to Sign On To--Viktor Frankl--The Need for "Decent People"
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Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the single most inspiring book I have ever read. Published 55 years ago it c...
January 28, 2022
What One Lives For--Joseph Conrad
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From Joseph Conrad "What one lives for may be uncertain; how one lives is not. Man should live nobly though he does not see any practi...
January 27, 2022
Whither Ukraine?
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Whither Ukraine? This is such a maddening and perplexing issue to me. Here I am on the outside, having read a huge amount of Russian his...
January 24, 2022
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is if it is comfort or money that it values mo...
January 9, 2022
A Trip of A Lifetime with My Son, John--As Recorded by Him--Too Precious Not to Share
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Zen and the Art of Changing a Windshield Wiper BY JOHN PEPPER · PUBLISHED JANUARY 6, 2022 · UPDATED JANUARY 7, 2022 They tell us to...
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