Here and There – 2045
Here and There – 2045 Despite some squabbles as to whether it began in 2000 or 2001, by the time 2001 was under way, [...]
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02, 2023
Here and There – Norway
Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days. Recollections from [...]
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12, 2022
Here and There – Scotland
Here and There – Scotland It is hard to explain why I love Scotland. I don’t have any known Scottish ancestry. I lived there [...]
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11, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]
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11, 2022
Here and There – China – Shanghai
Here and There – China – Shanghai I first went to Shanghai for work in 1998. I had been to China several times before, [...]
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11, 2022
John Updike
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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10, 2022
Here and There – Papua New Guinea
Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s. Working for Shell, I was [...]
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10, 2022
Peter Singer
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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09, 2022
Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic. While their students were taking to the streets in [...]
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09, 2022
Robert Putnam
Robert Putnam In case you haven’t noticed, I am a sucker for ‘big picture’ books (not big ‘picture books’, though I like them, too!). [...]