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Writer, book lover, curious soul. Retired. New life in NY after living about 30 years in Europe and Asia.
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Birth of the French Avant Garde
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Birth of the French Avant Garde
Review of The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society by Linda Nochlin
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January 26, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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The dismal science as intellectual adventure and passionate call to action.

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The dismal science as intellectual adventure and passionate call to action
Review of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
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January 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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What is the meaning of the Hallucinogenic Experience?
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What is the meaning of the Hallucinogenic Experience?
Review of On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality by Justin Smith-Ruiu
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January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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The disaster that is Venezuela
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The disaster that is Venezuela
Review of Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
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January 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Agriculture, the State, and Exploitation by Elites
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Agriculture, the State, Exploitation, Catastrophe, Renewal
Review of Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp
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January 4, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Impresario of the "plausible impossible"
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Impresario of the "plausible impossible"
Review of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
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January 2, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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From ethnolinguistic patchwork to proto-nations
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From ethnolinguistic patchwork to proto-nations
Review of Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
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December 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Poet, Scientist, Courtier, Diplomat
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Poet, Scientist, Courtier, Diplomat
Review of Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
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December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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An early modern of great daring and courage
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An early modern of great daring and courage
Review of A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler
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December 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The Last Golden Age of Jazz
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The Last Golden Age of Jazz
Review of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
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December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Umayyad Spain versus Carolingian Europe
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Umayyad Spain versus Carolingian Europe
Review of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis
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December 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Essential fault lines, but too sharply drawn
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Essential fault lines, but too sharply drawn
Review of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
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December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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We need to look at alternative societies to understand the range of human potential
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We need to look at alternative societies to understand the range of human potential
Review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
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December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes
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Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes
Review of Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West By Tom Holland
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November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The roots of the Latin American crisis
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The roots of the Latin American crisis
Review of Silver, Sword, and Stone Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana
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November 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Humanism and the Reformation, Erasmus v. Luther
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Humanism and the Reformation, Erasmus v. Luther
Review of Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
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November 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A republic dies
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A republic dies
Review of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
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November 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Europe in bloom after the Dark Ages
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Europe in bloom after the Dark Ages
Review of The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett
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November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Chicago: a key to modern capitalism
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Chicago: a key to modern capitalism
Review of Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West By William Cronon
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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Sociological view of Christianity's triumph
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Sociological view of Christianity's triumph
Review of The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart Ehrman
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Brilliant and brief history of military strategy
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Brilliant and brief history of military strategy
Review of War in European History by Michael Howard
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November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Man, conqueror, God
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Man, conqueror, God
Review of Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C by Peter Green
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November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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An early Kennedy pathography
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An early Kennedy pathography
Review of The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills
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November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Shock of the new
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Shock of the new
Review of American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1 by Alan Taylor
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November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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How language shapes our biology and culture
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How language shapes our biology and culture
Review of How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM