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We are Weak, but He is Strong

Also, for a blast from the past (ht Krugman from NYTimes), read Time’s double portrait […]

[In 1932, at the age of 58,] Winston Churchill’s dreams, he tells his family, are […]

From Robert Conquest’s “Stalin, Breaker of Nations” (mentioned in Mockingbird’s interview with Whit Stillman). One […]

It was big news last summer, when through strategic “cloud-seeding” the Chinese were able to […]

Servants live in terror of being unjustly dismissed from a situation without a letter of […]

On December 21, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, […]

Madmen on denial: What does denial mean? It means that the consequences are so dire […]

Last night, we tackled Big Problem #3 (sub-title: The Bondage of the Will), our inability […]

Many self-respecting optimists, especially those who are econ-optimists, are proclaiming to see “green shoots” and […]

After a discussion on snorting powder drink and the potential for maggot infestation of the […]