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Monday, July 15, 2024

The Path of Freedom (Vimuttimagga) / Upatissa Thera -- Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1961.

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The Vimuttimagga  is among the more important early Buddhist texts.  Written in the 1st or 2nd century and attributed to the Theravadan monk...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Jewish State / Theodore Herzl -- N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1988

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I read scores of books about the Arab-Zionist conflict.  In the course of that, I compiled a chronology o...
Monday, January 8, 2024

The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All / Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, eds. -- Chicago: Open Court, 2003

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 In the year 2000, Open Court Publishing launch a series titled, "Popular Culture and Philosophy" with the book Seinfeld and Philo...

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man / Mary L. Trump -- New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020

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I've not been particularly enticed to read any of the books coming out about Donald Trump and his administration.  I guess I get enough ...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited / Benny Morris -- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Thirty years after the 1947-49 War in historic Palestine, the Israeli government began declassifying the archives of the Jewish Agency and t...

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine / Ilan Pappe -- Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.

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Thirty years after the 1947-49 War in historic Palestine, the Israeli government began declassifying the archives of the Jewish Agency and t...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market / Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, NY: Bloomsbury Pub., 2023

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 In 2010, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway released The Merchants of Doubt , an account of the actions of the fossil fuel industry and their ag...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

2024 Presidential Election Prospects

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                 It’s a little early to be handicapping the 2024 presidential election, but there are some things that we can reliably expec...
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