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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
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Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
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The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
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Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
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What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
June 11, 2026‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Crossing Styx
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Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
June 10, 2026The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
June 9, 2026As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...




