Tag: america
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Happy Independence Day!
Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires have been in the cultural psyche recently, because America has warred with both Iran and…
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American Pastoral
Last book I read this year and it was very enjoyable. It’s America Dream, both as it is and the story it tells about itself. I think it’s a tale, a commentary maybe, on what we all collectively think America was post-WWII through the 60s contrasted with the internal and external experience of people we’d…