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A new book is out of Kurt Vonnegut's letters, and Slate has been running some selections. His advice to a friend slotted to teach at th...
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RIP. It would be hard to overstate Ravi Shankar's influence on introducing world music… to the world. He was an excellent musician, a ...
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RIP. I have several Brubeck albums, and the man had a great run, performing 'til he was 88. This tune is one of his most famous, and a...
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Ronald Reagan would have 100 today. As Will Bunch details in his book Tear Down This Myth, the real Reagan was more practical and open to c...
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An interesting look at geopolitics from the perspective of stock option pricing: "Fifteen years ago, the United States was short vol. N...
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Political battles do not occur in a vacuum, and the current scrum features several highly familiar elements. If you've been following th...
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Here's a new blog by a sometime-commenter on this site, "2$$G", a self-described "socially conservative, fiscally liberal...
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Retired Captain Robert Nestlerode, former CO of USS Birmingham (SSN 695) and Submarine Base New London (among other commands) passed away ... -
Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper , is the in-depth manual of Islamic law based on the Shafi'i school of thought, wi...
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Post-election analyses about what the Republican Party should change have been pretty popular recently, and it's been fun to see sharp b...