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Unending Conflicts: Reflections on “The Longest Day” and “The Last Battle,” by Cornelius RyanListening to the audiobook version of Cornelius Ryan’s account of the fall of Berlin, The Last Battle, read by the fabulous Simon Vance, inspired me to buy the audiobook of The Longest Day—which turned out to be […]
Some big, fantastic notionE. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful (1973) remains a fount of wisdom—wisdom which is in short supply today, and which we need. Desperately. The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very […]
The economy is more importantThe economy is more important, so we must continue using fossil fuels. The economy is more important, so we must stop wearing masks and tracking deaths from the pandemic. The economy is more important, so […]
Environmentalists need to get behind nuclear powerWhy? Because the only options to nuclear are 1) fossil fuels, or 2) no-growth, and neither of those is a viable option. Nuclear power sucks, but only in the same way that everything else in […]
Ron Chernow’s “The House of Morgan” (1990)Chernow tells the story of the Morgan banking dynasty from the 1850s to the 1980s—as sobering and depressing a tale as one could ever care to read. From the earliest days onward, the Morgan crowd […]
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