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Another Golden Age of excellence financed by exploitation?The “Golden Age” of ancient Athens in the 5th century B.C.E. included fabulous sculptures and architecture, the glorious dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and philosophers like Socrates and Plato. Ironically, these glories were financed […]
Cain, father of us allIt appears that the author of Genesis knew what he was doing when he wrote that the first human—i.e., the first human born of a woman, Adam and Eve’s first-born child—was a murderer. Not a […]
1950 – 2000: a golden age?A friend wrote: Looking back on the range of our lives, I think we’ve lived in a golden time, notwithstanding some awful things—the Vietnam War being the most predominant—but we have lived in a time […]
Violence in America“This is not who we are”? Seriously? Assassinations are as American as apple pie. The presidential assassinations alone are almost too numerous to remember. Include killings or attempted killings of other elected officials, add in […]
1944/45 all-star jazz broadcastJubilee was a radio program on the Armed Forces Radio Service intended for African-American soldiers during the Second World War and the Korean War; the program ran until 1953. The photos below are from a […]
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