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From Hitler to Hamas (and Hezbollah)
Nazi Germany was the incubator for what would become Hamas and Hezbollah. This post includes a downloadable book chapter detailing this underappreciated…
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Robert F. Graboyes
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David Patterson
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Pigeons of the Rothschilds (redux)
How an economist used pigeons to disrupt an economics seminar before winning a Nobel Prize and publicly reciting the literary works of Paris Hilton…
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Robert F. Graboyes
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Three Songs and Six Tales (Redux)
"Stones of Antiquity" for listening. “One Man, Two Graves,” “Queen of the Street,” “Apartment of the Damned,” “Urban Python,” “An American in Almaty…
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February 2025

Plato, China, Dixie, Disinformation
When governments, whether in contemporary China or in mid-century Virginia, decide to curate truth—to decide what citizens should and should not know
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Robert F. Graboyes
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Pundit Asks If "Trump Is Actually Warren Harding"
Pundit needs to know that Harding was bold and enlightened on civil rights & civil liberties and ushered in peace, prosperity, bipartisanship, cautious…
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We Beg Your Pardon, We Never Promised You the Rose Garden
A modest proposal reining in the accelerating arms race in issuance of presidential pardons and commutations—a constitutional vestige of Seventh Century…
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Prometheus and the Worried Well
How much medical knowledge is too much? How much is too little? How does knowledge of mortality prompt and/or stall human flourishing?
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Ten Brief Tales from the Spirit-World
Memories distilled from across a lifetime. Plus, one vintage story.
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Saturday Name-Dropping (Redux)
A provincial in New York encounters Yoko Ono, Art Garfunkel, Penny Marshall, Woody Allen, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Brad Dourif, Itzhak Perlman, Hank…
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The Gulf of Trump
A nautical-neurological exploration of Donald Trump's support for tariffs
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An Inexhaustible Voice, a Soul, a Spirit
The remarkable story of a song, a singer, and triumph over unthinkable adversity
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Polls Askew, Justice Denied, Lives in Peril, and the Subtle Truths of Double-Yolk Eggs
How three breakfasts suggested the fragility of statistics and the fallibility of statisticians.
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