War
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I saw Les Misérables tonight, and aside from it being an absolutely fantastic rendering of one of my favorite musicals, it got me to thinking about the role that revolution–particularly violent revolution–plays in our romantic and historical imagination. The main theme of Les Miz, for the uninitiated, is redemption, but the story also focuses on…
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From Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994): From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard…
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Picture this. A powerful, tested military power invades a small, militarily weak country with strong diplomatic ties to the Western powers, including the United States, Britain and France. The invasion of this small country prompts an international outrage. What’s next? For World War II purists, the stage has just been set for a massive international…
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