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Cultural Brutalism

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  Slabs of irregular stained concrete, exposed metal framing on windows, and stacked geometries connected by sterile stairwells declining as much as elevating,  metastatically dominate the classic gabled tower, roofline and arches of the near by buildings in Lyon, France.  I suspect no citizen of Lyon was likely asked their opinion as to whether their […]... Read More
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The Coming Fall?

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Civilizations inevitably have a rise, a golden age, and a fall.  The most famous documented in literature is the story of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, as Odoacer of the Goths determined to remove the last vestiges of the seats of power of the empire from its thousand year presence in […]... Read More
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Back To The Future : America Resumes Manned Flight

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It’s not particularly a good time for assessing the legacy of President Barack Hussein Obama.  The ever developing story of his administration’s corruptive efforts to first prevent, and eventually, as they felt impelled to protect their legacy,  to disable the administration of his successor President Trump is not exactly going to shine historical  glory upon […]... Read More
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Distant Peals of Freedom: “The British Are Coming – The War for America Lexington to Princeton 1775-1777”

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The current crisis and its restrictions on day to day mundane activities permits a silver lining, consistent time for reading and thinking.  The coordinated marriage of the two, concerted reading that leads to thinking about what you have read, is perhaps a neglected skill that deserves reinvigoration.  For those of us who love the study […]... Read More
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Freedom in the Age of Covid

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  Like a tsunami wave, the current Corona virus pandemic has swept unimpeded across countries, oceans, and continents upending the comfortable cultural patterns of civilization and pointing dead center at the world’s economic stability.  The pace and severity of the virus spread has placed many countries under siege, and the public willingness to accede to […]... Read More
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Impeachment Circus

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On February 24th, 1868, after three years of open conflict with a President of the United States they universally detested, the House of Representatives of the United States passed 11 articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. The accidental President Johnson, brought to the position of the Presidency through the tragic assassination of President Lincoln, […]... Read More
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The Crack in the Wall

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On a cold night in February, 1989, a twenty year old waiter at a local restaurant in East Berlin determined with a friend of his to engage a hasty plan to try and change their lives for good. They considered their odds somewhat better than the hundreds who had come before them, though there had […]... Read More
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Justice Comes for Kayla Mueller

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It always seems the end for the worst of humanity comes with a pathetic irony. Those who would waste the lives of hundreds of thousands, promoting themselves as steely icons of irresistible strength and ruthless ideologic will, often find their end in the pathetic circumstance of cowardly trying avoid their fate rather than facing their […]... Read More