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November 2009:
It is impossible for anyone to project accurately the effects of currency manipulationsby nations around the world. We hear...Recently I've become more aware of a personal condition that I've recognized vaguelyfor most of my life. That's probably because...I was interested to see in yesterday's New York Times an essay by Caroline Alexanderabout how ancient mythologies continue to shape our thinking about...It's possible for political divisions in a country to become so vehement that truthbecomes irrelevant. I'm afraid we're...October 2009:
Have you ever asked yourself what the evidence is for the existence of al-Qaedaas it is regularly depicted in the...Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic has finally put into public discussion a questionthat everyone who pays attention to political talk shows must have asked himself...The most talked-about phenomenon in American political life right now is theordinary guy coupled to his anger. And the main question...If we can believe the pundits, Barack Obama is done for. The ABC Sunday morningtalk show yesterday was a chorus of doom. Obama didn't...September 2009:
Many of the articles I read this morning touched an underlying issue which maywell become the principal topic of journalism -- the gap between...When you come out of the Wauchula Wal-Mart parking lot and turn onto Rea Road,there's a sign across the street advertising...While I was visiting in Atlanta, a family member told me he had recently readBart Ehrman's God's Problem and recommended it to me as...August 2009:
It's hard to know whether public conditions are as ominous as we are led to believeby the media. I don't mean just...A wave of fear is coursing through those who most avidly supported Barack Obama inhis march to the White House. They think they see signs that...If you get your perception of public conditions in America from ranging fairly widelyon the internet, you would...July 2009:
I have been somewhat spotty in my posting recently because my two grandsons havebeen staying with us during July. They require more...A friend of mine has been writing a commencement address which draws analogiesbetween the American Revolution and certain aspects of liberal learning...There is wide agreement that our political process is paralyzed. Serious problemsconfront us but because of...We have had a spate of deaths among well-known people recently...June 2009:
I suspect that most Americans born near the middle of the last century are like me.They grew up believing that...The sense of failure in the United States now is palpable and growing. It's hard toimagine anything in the...The emerging debate over health care reform offers us one more piece of evidenceabout a human mental illness that...From the dollar rack of the Country Bookshop in Plainfield I bought the second partof Kenneth Clark's autobiography, titled appropriately, The Other Half...As I return to this column which I let lapse for six weeks as I was undergoing amedical procedure, what happened to me during that period is...April 2009:
Among English words that are most frequently used in confused and misleadingways, "intelligence" must come pretty close to...The world seems crazier to me now than it once did. That may be an illusioncreated by the more numerous...Often, there floats into my mind T.S. Eliot's admonition that one should not spendhis whole life making sure that...March 2009:
I have emerged, once again, from Hardee County and I can give personal testimonythat it really does have...I'm joking a bit when I describe myself as a naif. I don't suppose many would grantme the title...There are turning points in history. Marking their beginnings is an inexact artwhich never achieves universal consent...In the Washington Post this morning, E. J. Dionne has the most important columnwe've seen in years...February 2009:
Is it just a sense peculiar to me or do we concentrate more of our lives on specialevents than used to be the case...The two principal columns in the New York Times this morning spoke of a society onthe way up and a society on the way down...The events of the past few days have given us a clearer definition of centrism: thethrust to...We now have yet one more big term that is serving to confuse discussion of governmentbecause it is on everyone's lips and each person who uses it seems...January 2009:
The deaths in Masamut, a village in eastern Afghanistan, have set off the most recentcontroversy about...I just got back from a local library when I went to talk about Garry Wills's study fromthe early 1970s titled, Nixon Agonistes...Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, George Bush said the most truthful thing he hasuttered during his presidency...We've all seen films in which the government of a small, isolated town has fallen into thehands of a criminal gang...All images and text on this page are the property of Word and Image of Vermont
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