When hype mars history
When it comes to exaggeration and hyperbole, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has only moved an emotional world further from critical thinking, writes John Freidlander.
When it comes to exaggeration and hyperbole, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has only moved an emotional world further from critical thinking, writes John Freidlander.
In the few years before his death in the mid-1990s, something extraordinary came over my uncle Hubert, who was born [...]
Strange times indeed when virus hysteria makes fear fashionable and leads moderns to forget how lucky they really are, argues John Freidlander.
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Donald Trump is out, or nearly. Happy now? I am: I hated his hair color choices. But here's a word [...]
My father flew B-17 bombers over occupied Europe in World War II. The planes, which took off from primitive airfields [...]
I agreed only reluctantly to have dinner with a friend and several of his acquaintances on the last day of [...]
We wouldn't have stood for it. A week maybe, tops. We had no internet. We had no cable TV news. [...]