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- Book review: The Argumentative Indian: Writing on Indian History,Culture and Identity, by Amartya Sen The Argumentative Indian: Writing on Indian History,Culture and Identity, by Amartya Sen, Farrar, Strass and Giroux, New York, 2005, 409 pp, Hardcover, $6.61 on Amazon, ISBN: 978-0-374-10583-9 by Arnold Zeitlin 6 July 2020 Polymath economist and Nobel …
- Why Isn’t the ‘Southern Strategy’ Working? The so-called Southern strategy — appealing to white voters by focusing on racial issues — has worked very well for the Republican Party. It has helped the party persuade many frustrated white working-class voters that the Democratic Party doesn’t care …
- 'To fail but still mostly be safe': Lynn Steger Strong wrestles with precarity and privilege In the last few years, Lynn Steger Strong has built a wide audience with her compelling essays – including a series for the Guardian – about the precarity that can coexist with privilege in America, indictments of a country where getting an education or …
- Senior College offers free summer program July 8 & 22 Belfast — Spend an hour each with Winston Churchill and Alexander Hamilton in a free online course given by Belfast’s Senior College. In the summer there is no age requirement, so anyone can watch this two-day course, one hour or more each session. With …
- Book review: The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan Vintage The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan Vintage, $36 Reviewed by Louise Ward, Wardini Books. In this wildly imaginative novel, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937), long dead, finds herself in a warm, atmospherically lit drawing room, …
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