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Book Review: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm
Who would be worthy of Alexander's legacy?
Read More »The Definition of Art: Good Riddance Warhol and Pollock
Art is a focus and a discipline. Allowing a lack of either to slither in under the definition of art is a travesty.
Read More »Book Review: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious History Of Native People In North America by Thomas King
A history that's not going to be everyone's liking as it runs contrary to most people's idea of Indians.
Read More »Take Lead in Fighting Hunger at Home and Abroad
There is enough food to feed all the hungry. It’s not a question of resources as much as leadership.
Read More »Book Review: If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
An enjoyable read that will add to your trivia collection rather than your historical understanding.
Read More »DVD Review: Bill Moyers – A World of Ideas II – Great Thinkers
A World of Ideas II: Great Thinkers is an engrossing interesting collection of conversations with great minds of our time.
Read More »Book Review:The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
The beginning of the end of a long held tradition, destroyed by greed and murder.
Read More »Book Review: Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The bloody struggle to possess Jerusalem a depressing revelation of man's troubled soul.
Read More »Movie Industry Can Help End World Hunger
The film industry has an opportunity to use its power to fight a global threat: hunger and malnutrition.
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