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11 Oct Pride, Prejudice, and Christopher Columbus

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Contrary to popular belief, most educated Europeans in Columbus’s time did understand that the world was round, but they had no knowledge yet that the Pacific Ocean existed.

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04 Oct Aww, Give It A Shot!

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Vaccination has been named one of the Ten Great Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century. What a nice opener that is!

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27 Sep Values

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Values has been of late a much-abused word, being brandished as almost synonymous with nativism, jingoism, the nuclear family, religious systems, and flat-out bigotry. Yet the word itself, stripped of these overlays, still has, well . . . value. For instance, disagreements over money...

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20 Sep The Two Talibans

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Afghanistan is a country about the size of Texas. Within one 24-hour period, between August 31 and September 1, the Taliban rose to power in both. Sima Samar, Afghan former Deputy President and Minister of Affairs, and the 17-year Chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights...

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14 Sep New Blog Delivery Service!

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Friends! I hope you all had a wonderful summer. It's just about time for us to get back to it, but we have a small bit of "housekeeping" to announce before we do.

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28 Jun The Roaring Twenties!

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As Santayana wrote, "Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

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21 Jun Juneteenth!

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Juneteenth--also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Emancipation Day--is now a formal holiday nationwide, celebrating the emancipation of people formally enslaved in the United States. It's been a long time comin'.

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13 Jun The Future Metropolis

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Although I've lived for certain protracted periods in the country—once, notably, in New Zealand on a farm—I am undeniably and deeply a city girl. Specifically a New York City girl, I confess. Which may serve at least partly to explain why this week we're focusing...

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07 Jun The Donkey and the Elephant

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In the last four years, partisan politics have reached a new low in our nation. Everyone deplores this, but the American people made their preference clear in the last presidential election, with a landslide vote for Biden and the Democrats, against Trump and his party...

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24 May The Crisis in Journalism

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Serious studies are being done on this by reputable sources. The Pew Research Center, The Columbia Journalism Review in partnership with the TOW Center for Digital Journalism, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, etc. Let's “unpack” this, then, to use the common parlance,...

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