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Intimate dementia
Dementia. The word of the decade, maybe, but before it displayed itself as an awful management problem for the entire world, it was an intimate agony in private worlds. Some years ago I was sitting in a booth at my … Continue reading
How to do diplomacy in the face of war
Like you, I read about (or maybe just skim over) Trump’s egregiously wacky jabs at convincing everyone he knows what he’s doing. One of the many things he knows nothing about is diplomacy, which demands a grasp of reality he … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Culture, Government, Immigration, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War
Tagged "Taking Manhattan", "The Island at the Center of the World", Hudson Bay, Iran war, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam, New England, Peter Stuyvesant, Richard Nicolls, Russell Shorto, Trump
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“For who would set a limit to the mind of man?”
“Who would dare assert we know all there is to be known?” Even in 1613, he meant these as rhetorical questions to a close friend. Later, he was forced to reckon with a couple of men who did not agree. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged anti-vaxxers, Galileo, Kid Rock, Lee Zeldin, Mehmet Oz, RFK Jr, science in the USA, Trump
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