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By Peter Kinder

I believe what I write to be the truth, ...every man who is not indifferent
to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about. -Alexander Herzen (1863)

  • ‘Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!’ August 29 2011
  • Reality Check: Pushing Quality of Life Responsibility Down the Government Chain August 28 2011
  • Hobbes’s Choice: ‘The Life of Man’ & Government August 28 2011
  • ‘Civilized Withdrawal … Interminable Summer Vacations’ August 28 2011
  • To Ray Bradbury: Happy 91st! August 22 2011
  • A ‘Kingdom Divided Against Itself’: America’s ‘Two Nations’ and the Future August 22 2011
  • Vice President Biden to Chinese Audience: on Public Speaking, Stuttering & Cross-Cultural Exchange August 21 2011
  • The President’s Tour Bus: ‘The Medium is the Message’ August 16 2011
  • Picture, Picture on the Wall; Who’s the Crassest of Them All? In Your Eye Buildings, Massachusetts Division August 15 2011
  • The Recession Foretold: von Hoffman in 2005 on the Housing Bubble’s Effects August 14 2011

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