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Who cares why World War I began?

A couple of months ago, a question, disconnected from anything I was doing or thinking at the time, popped up in my head: “How did we — the U.S., that is — get into World War I?” We all know … Continue reading

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What is Trump to Putin? His “shithouse cleaner”

David Cornwell (John Le Carré), a man of supernal intelligence in deep state secrets and spies, inserts a slashing contemporary opinion in his latest novel, Agent Running In The Field.  He places this opinion in the mouth of Arkady, a … Continue reading

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