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Friday, November 6, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Critical Thinking About Political Origins in the Presence of Specious Argument (Paper No. 17)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 15.  With the 2020 Federal election still not called, and the integrity of the electoral process challe...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 16)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 14.  As the election count continues unresolved today, political writers observe that we are polarized....
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About Our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 15)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 13.  Uncannily, Hamilton opens his 15th paper, which I read on a U.S. election day of historical propor...
Monday, November 2, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About Our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 14)

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  THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 12.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers .  We have see...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper Nos. 12 & 13)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 11.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers . A nation canno...
Friday, October 30, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 11)

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  THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 10.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers . Alexander Ha...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 10)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 9.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers .  In Paper No. 1...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 9)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 8.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers . It is impossibl...
Friday, October 23, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 8)

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 THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 7.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers .    If we are w...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 7)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 6.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers . Avoiding intern...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 6)

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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 5.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers . Alexander Hamil...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 5)

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  THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - Part 4.     A link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers .  John Jay wri...
Monday, October 19, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About Our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Paper No. 4)

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And on we go with THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT.   Here is that link to Project Gutenberg's free source edition of The Federalist Papers...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Papers Nos. 2 & 3)

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  Welcome back to THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT, a read-along challenge with the aim of focusing attention during the lead-up and aftermath ...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS PROJECT - A Commitment to Deep Thinking About our Political Origins in the Presence of Noise (Intro and Paper No. 1)

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It has been ages since I have written here, let alone created a series, I fear that I may be out of practice. Back in 2007, I visited a poem...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Great Championer of Art (Books - Kenneth Clark: Life, Art, and Civilisation by James Stourton)

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Kenneth Clark, I think it is safe to say, was the most influential championer of art of his time.  Art consultant to King George VI, Direc...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

Personal Mysteries Drive Forward a Story of International Law (Books - East West Street by Philippe Sands)

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Once known as "little Paris of the Ukraine," the city of Lemberg (also called Lw ó w, Lvov and Lviv, depending on the moment in ...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

What is left when what we loved is gone? (Books - What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt)

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In the New York art world of the 1970s, art historian, Leo Hertzberg, experiences a powerful painting.  He buys it, beginning a friendship...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

A harpist for whom someone else pulls the strings (Books - The Extra by A. B. Yehoshua)

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A. B. Yehoshua is one of just a few Israeli writers, along with Amos Oz and David Grossman , whose novels are regularly translated and ma...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

The Consequences of Betrayal (Books - Exposure by Helen Dunmore)

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Helen Dunmore's Exposure (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016) is a gently genre-defying novel - a deep and satisfying story of relationships...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Flat storytelling dulls new YA series (Book - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel)

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Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants (Del Rey, 2016) is the first volume of a planned YA fantasy series.  A young girl happens upon a gian...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

The Birth of a Narrative (Books - The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena)

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The debut novel of Spaniard Juan Gómez B á rcena - The Sky Over Lima (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) - is a mischievous, Escher-like pae...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

One Immigrant Who Made America Great (Books - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow)

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I'm not sure that Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Books, 2004) the bestselling biography and basis for Lin-Manuel Mirand...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Small bombs, large impacts, no simple explanations (Books - The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan)

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In Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016), three boys set out on an errand one afternoon in Delhi. Only one of...
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Sunday, May 1, 2016

People are more than objects in space (Books - A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin)

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Ethan Canin was already one of my favorite authors for having written For Kings and Planets , and I have frequently recommended his The Pa...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

The hyperfocus of life during illness, and the book as immersive technology (Books - Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher)

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Scarred Hearts (Old Street Publishing) by Max Blecher was first published in Romanian in 1937, but did not reach English readers until 20...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Innocence rescued in a modern literary fantasy (Books - The Children's Home by Charles Lambert)

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I am a great admirer of Charles Lambert's books, having enjoyed his thriller-like works Any Human Face and The View from the Tower , ...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Alexander Humboldt's broadreaching influence on modern science (Books - The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf)

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Andrea Wulf's biography The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) shares the irrepresab...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Bloomsbury myth-busting of the highest order (Books - Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester)

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Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf: A Portrait (Columbia University Press, 2013), in 2013  is less strictly a biography than it is a ...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

The science of autism is a story of real people (Books - In a Different Key by John Donvan & Caren Zucker)

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Ruth had stopped doubting herself the morning she saw Joe do a jigsaw puzzle upside down.  For some time, she had been nagged by a feelin...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Unexpected World of Cage Fighting and What It has to Do With Us (Books - Beast by Doug Merlino)

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I am as guilty of it as the next person - reading for comfort.  Either we read about worlds with which we are familiar or, and I think wor...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Coming of age in the footlights (Books - The Little Shadows - by Marina Endicott)

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Award-winning Canadian novelist Marina Endicott is not widely known in the U.S., but she deserves to be. Her The Little Shadows (Doubleda...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

A tale of coming together while coming apart (Books - Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy)

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In Sleeping on Jupiter (2015, Hachette India) Anuradha Roy creates a tale of convergences.  An Indian girl, Nomi, is orphaned when her pa...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Life is more than what we know (Books - In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman)

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A well-to-do Londoner, his marriage and his job as an investment banker in ruins as the economy collapses in 2008, receives a visit.  Zafa...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

The Man Who Wouldn't Be Known (Books - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara)

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Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life (Doubleday, 2015) has been written about widely and short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.  As ...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Revolution in thought and practice (Books - The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow)

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Erasmus Darwin, 18th Century physician, writer, grandfather of the more famous Charles, and one of the eponymous lunar men of Jenny Uglow...