Pete Seeger: Secular Saint & Sinner

Published January 30th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

‘Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in…

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Border Security: Securing Who from Where for Whom?

Published June 10th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Yesterday, I posted on Karl Schlogel’s powerful history of the prelude to Stalin’s Great Terror, Moscow 1937. As I said, one thing the Soviets did well by…

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‘Moscow 1937′: A Terrifying Read

Published June 9th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

The scariest book I ever read I didn’t read on a moonless night with a flashlight in a sleeping bag at 9000 feet in the Teton Wilderness Area. …

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