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Friday, May 24, 2019
Paradoxes of American life
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A month ago, on April 27, I reviewed Liah Greenfeld's book, Mind, Modernity, Madness. More reflection has developed some of the though...
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Friday, May 17, 2019
Impeachment: An historical perspective
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Should the Democrats in the House of Representative decide to impeach President Trump, this will be the fourth time in our history that ...
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Friday, May 10, 2019
Citizenship, the census, and the future of the US
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The controversy over the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, which reached the Supreme Court this week, illustrates onc...
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Sunday, May 05, 2019
The Democratic Race - non-random observations
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The two leaders in all Democratic polls, by far, are two men from the Silent generation, whose youngest members (like Joe Biden) will turn 7...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
A Remarkable Book
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I recently re-connected with a sociologist whom I had met many years ago, Liah Greenfeld, who has been a university professor at Boston Univ...
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