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Book Review: Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund
...people born well after the war are in some ways survivors of the Holocaust as much as those who lived through the camps.
Read More »The Age Of The Individual and The Loss Of The Tribe
The trade-off for our present civilization and lifestyle is feeling a little lost and lonely.
Read More »When Camp Became “The Camps”
The lights of the oncoming cars could have been the search lights in a camp, or the flashlights of campers.
Read More »Book Review: Genius Instruction Manual by the Writers of mental_floss
The splendiferous mental_floss magazine does books, too.
Read More »DVD Review: Blood and Oil – The Middle East in World War I
A documentary focus on the Middle East during World War I provides important perspective on the region's problems today.
Read More »Medea Was Not A Child-Killer
Euripides was paid five talents for an early piece of what turned out to be hugely effective propaganda.
Read More »Book Review: Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra
A terrorist is a person who takes the path of least resistance when it comes to living.
Read More »Book Review: In The Name Of God by Yasmina Khadra
You see it's not that hard to become a terrorist; it might just be harder not to.
Read More »Music Review: Canciones De Las Brigadas Internacionales
A wonderful tribute to the foreign fighters of the Spanish Civil War, who have been ignored for too long.
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