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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
November 2, 2023Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably...
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Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
November 2, 2023In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
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History of Madness by Michel Foucault
November 1, 2023By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
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The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
October 30, 2023...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
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The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
October 28, 2023To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
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Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
October 28, 2023He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...
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A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
October 28, 2023"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
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Believers and Infidels
October 25, 2023For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
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Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
October 22, 2023What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
October 21, 2023The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...