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‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf

‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky…

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Idly Scribble Poems

Idly Scribble Poems

Even if we live alone, even if extremely recluse, we still probably argue…

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Ever Expostulating

Ever Expostulating

What’s necessary? And what’s good?

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Nature Overseeds

Nature Overseeds

A couple of weeks ago, meeting for a beer with fish and chips at a local English styled pub where soccer from the real England was playing on hanging television sets…

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We Are on Our Way

We Are on Our Way

These days, I’m not sure why I still bother to maintain a phone…

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Basement Books or Green Bookcase

Basement Books or Green Bookcase

At first I thought they were talking about India Pale Ale…

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1 Raccoon, 1 More

1 Raccoon, 1 More

a dozen oysters a lemon a loaf of bread…

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We Read: Why?

We Read: Why?

Most of the books in my collection predate barcodes and current ISBN formats…

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Your Bees, Your Flies, Your Birds, Your Squirrels

Your Bees, Your Flies, Your Birds, Your Squirrels

I don’t want to write about Watt this morning. I want to write about what…

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Order! Order!

Order! Order!

The first line of inquiry I would like to develop connects to a central point Foucault makes in his reading of German Ordoliberalism…

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Supermassive Snapshot

Supermassive Snapshot

Our team was part of the global Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration…

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The first-amendment bubble of big US online media platforms quickly burst…

The first-amendment bubble of big US online media platforms quickly burst…

When free-market elephants like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos take charge of major mass-media outlets, concerns are raised about the direction of free speech…

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Put it in the books!

Put it in the books!

The outfielders adept at prose. At third base and first, essayists. At shortstop and second base, poets…

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A Movie to Remember

A Movie to Remember

The Titanic fascinates filmmakers because it has everything a dramatist could ever want: heroism, sacrifice, decency…

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The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The Paradise Parrot was feared to be extinct…

The extinction of a species is a ghastly thing…

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Le Pen Fighter II

Le Pen Fighter II

On the face of it, the results of Sunday’s first-round French presidential election look like a carbon copy of those in 2017…

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Winter Warriors

Winter Warriors

Unable to deter the Soviets, France and Britain finally raised a military relief force, too small and too late to impact the outcome…

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Surfing, Jazz, Beats

Surfing, Jazz, Beats

The writing temperament comes to light as a condition of being. If there was a point, it was learning to read…

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Junior ranks are condemned to a chain of perpetual fear…

Junior ranks are condemned to a chain of perpetual fear…

Putin manages the military in much the same way as he does the wider Russian state, choosing loyalty to him above professional competence…

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Why did Ukraine give up the Bomb?

Why did Ukraine give up the Bomb?

In 1991, Ukraine became an independent country and the world’s third largest nuclear power…

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