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When You're in Canberra: Wig and Pen
The craftbrew revolution: it’s not just for America any moreI give you Wig and Pen, on the very campus of the Australian National University in Canberra. A wide range of beers made on site, and this in...
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Awards for Civic Engagement: 37 New Examples
The Dequindre Cut in Detroit, one of the civic projects that has just won support in a nationwide competition sponsored by the Knight Foundation. (Detroit Riverfront Conservancy)A big question in...
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The Revolt of the Masses: Confusing Taste and Fact
Yesterday I quoted a reader about the book The Revolt of the Masses, by Jose Ortega y Gasset, which was published in 1929 but is uncomfortably relevant in the age of climate-change denialism and of...
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‘It's Always the Cover-up, Never the Crime’: Bad Move by the Leadership of UC...
No, this is not the bad move I’m talking about. But it was the prelude. (Brian Nguyen / Reuters)Davis, California, is a wonderful town, and the academic / tech...
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The Spirit of China, in Pint-Sized Form
I'm not sure exactly how old the toddler in this wildly popular new video is. Maybe three? Maybe four? What I know is that this illustrates a side of Chinese life familiar to anyone who has lived there...
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Could There Ever be an ‘American Alibaba’? Jack Ma’s Biographer Explains What...
The cover of Clark’s new book.A few days ago I posted a first round of questions-and-answers with Duncan Clark, a longtime analyst of and participant in China’s high-tech economy, and author of the new...
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People of Czechia, Turn Back! It's Not Too Late
This is not Czechia (Wikipedia)My two sons are each 50% Czech by background. So through the laws of algebraic equivalence, obviously this means that I myself...
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Brewers Rebuilding America: South Florida Edition
Innocent Florida beers, taken far from their homeland to the mid-Atlantic region.I am in the middle of article-writing. Thus this amuse-bouche.In this space I have from time to time unkindly disparaged...
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The 2-Minute, 2-Point Guide to the Trump Airplane Story
1) On the one hand, this is purely a procedural matter and has nothing to do with safety, airworthiness, or any other drama-in-the-skies item. There are all sorts of regular, timed inspections and...
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‘A Scandal in Czechia’
Screenshot of Google ngram tracking, of the uses in English of the terms Czech Republic, Bohemia, and the suggested new name Czechia. For interactive version go here. Czechia does have the virtue of...
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Deb Fallows at the University of Redlands
During our West Coast travels for American Futures reports in the winter of 2014-2015, my wife Deb and I were based at the University of Redlands, in southern California. From there we did reports on...
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Team Czechia Makes Its Case
The banner from the home page of the organization promoting use of “Czechia”In the previous posts collected in this Thread, I argued that the country officially known as the Czech Republic should...
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Ben Beach Finishes His 49th Straight Boston Marathon
Here’s the official winner of last week’s Boston Marathon, Lemi Berhanu Hayle of Ethiopia. Bennett Beach of the D.C. area didn’t win but was a record-setter. (Greg M. Cooper-USA Today Sports)Last week...
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‘Modernism in America’ — Online Poetry Course
Elisa (Lisa) New is a professor of English at Harvard, with specialities in modern American literature and poetry. Earlier this month she launched an online course on American Modernist poetry,...
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The Historical Case for ‘Czech Republic,’ the Bonus Case for ‘the Czechlands’
Colors and patterns of the Czech Republic flag as rendered with favorite Czech foods, from vepřo knedlo zelo site. Image by Vojta Herout.We may be nearing the home stretch here, but I didn’t want to...
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Ken Burns, on the American Prairie Reserve
I’ve mentioned several times how interested I’ve been in the American Prairie Reserve, in northern Montana. (And, yes, this is what I’d prefer to talk about on this latest primary-election night.) The...
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‘America First’, ‘Common Wealth’: Notes on the Public Language of Our Times
Charles Lindbergh at an America First rally (Wikimedia)America First. In his big foreign policy speech yesterday, Donald Trump said that his guiding principle as president would be “America First.”On...
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Hmmm, Why Does This Sound Familiar? Cont.
Previously in the Hmmmm series, please see this, this, this, this. Now a very interesting analysis from John Sides in the WaPo:From the Washington Post.Short version of his analysis: most Americans...
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When You're in Canberra: Wig and Pen
The craftbrew revolution: it’s not just for America any moreI give you Wig and Pen, on the very campus of the Australian National University in Canberra. A wide range of beers made on site, and this in...
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Obama Is Right to Go to Hiroshima, as an Act of ‘Recognition’ Rather Than...
Lanterns outside the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, last year on the 70th anniversary of the U.S.’s dropping an atomic bomb there. (Thomas Peter / Reuters)Barack Obama probably could not have gone to the...
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