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Aïda Amer’s American FlagPerfectly expresses the moment we are witnessing. Source: https://www.aidaamer.com/?itemId=c7s6obglfrjh2iruhz1l854iwlixvw
Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novelsI read through most of these detective novels many years ago, but the other day was offered a sharp discount on the audiobook version of Unnatural Death, and I have been enjoying it very much. Wimsey, […]
Revisiting “Brideshead Revisited”The video, starring Jeremy Irons. I have not read the book. There was a great deal I did not remember at all, and some I misremembered. The one detail I recalled correctly from 1982 was […]
French military discipline, 1914As the French army falls back toward Paris in the face of an overwhelming German advance, the Minister of War, Adolphe Messimy, decides that the ineffective General Victor-Constant Michel must be replaced as Military Governor […]
Language warsThe left keeps fighting the language wars and losing everything else. Unhoused, not homeless. Undocumented, not illegal. Transgender, not transsexual. Sex worker, not prostitute. And let’s be extremely careful about what word to use to refer to people […]
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