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11 11, 2022

John Updike

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-11T03:20:31+00:00November 11th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me.  Let’s be clear, I am an [...]

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28 10, 2022

Charles Taylor

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-28T03:50:27+00:00October 28th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society|

Charles Taylor Tidying up some items in a desk drawer, I found a tin with several old coins inside.  I must have put them [...]

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14 10, 2022

Peter Singer

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-14T01:46:39+00:00October 14th, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do.  The proposal [...]

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2 09, 2022

George Orwell

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-02T02:17:14+00:00September 2nd, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Politics, Society|

George Orwell What can be said in four pages about one of the more important writers of the 20th Century?  So much has been [...]

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19 08, 2022

Michael Novak

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-08-19T05:38:30+00:00August 19th, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Politics, Society|

Michael Novak There I was, quietly eating my vegetable soup listening to ABC Classical radio when the next item came on:  it was Ralph [...]

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29 07, 2022

Here and There – Japan

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-07-29T04:01:29+00:00July 29th, 2022|Personal, Philosophical, Politics, Society|

Here and there – Japan I have always enjoyed my visits to Japan, and at the same time I have always felt an outsider, [...]

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13 05, 2022

Kenneth Gergen

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-05-13T00:57:11+00:00May 13th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society|

Kenneth Gergen On page 14, there is a cartoon, a Larson cartoon.  In an otherwise empty room, a man is sitting at a desk, [...]

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29 04, 2022

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-04-29T05:53:15+00:00April 29th, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Politics, Society|

Felipe Fernández-Armesto In the face of vast quantities of information and analyses about wars, floods, political jousting and so many other topics, we are [...]

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1 04, 2022

Antonio Damasio

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-04-01T01:16:48+00:00April 1st, 2022|Books, Philosophical|

Antonio Damasio On September 13, 1848, a twenty-five-year-old foreman was directing a team blasting rocks to open up a path for a railway line [...]

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24 03, 2022

Here and There – Greece

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-03-24T23:52:57+00:00March 24th, 2022|Personal, Philosophical, Society|

Here and There – Greece Perhaps because it is at the ‘wrong’ end of Europe, the eastern end, the furthest away from the UK [...]

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