March 28, 2022

Abraham Lincoln's Life-- A Source of Never Ending Learning

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  A. LINCOLN BY RONALD C. WHITE, JR.   I have just finished reading a magnificent biography of Abraham Lincoln:  probably the best that I’ve...
March 4, 2022

How Can We Exit from the Human Carnage in Front of Us (Updated blog from 3/2)

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  How Can We Exit From The Human Carnage In Front of Us MARCH 4, 2022 We have to give Putin an off ramp,—but one which guarantees the enduri...
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...