You say they gassed six million Jews. I ask you how you know. You say it’s from historians; They agree…
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Academic Ostriches
Bring up the death of James Forrestal; Historians run and hide. They’d like to believe that Count Bernadotte Was a…
FULL ARTICLEThe Richard Cory Effect
Now, let us sing of the smooth Richard Cory, The rich man in Edwin A. Robinson’s story, Who went home…
FULL ARTICLESolicitude
Don’t you think that the family has suffered enough. Why must you stir up this mess? He wasn’t constructed of…
FULL ARTICLEBlissful Ignorance
A tiny hole will make us sink To the bottom of the drink, And such a hole I have espied,…
FULL ARTICLEOverdoing Learning
Could it be I’ve learned too much? If charged, I must confess. My views would be more popular If I…
FULL ARTICLEForrestal to Lovett
He said, “They’re really after me, But we should not infer That Forrestal was crazy, Because, in fact, they were.…
FULL ARTICLEIrgun Murder Plots
Re: Forrestal and Bevin, I can tell you this: For Menachem Begin, It was hit and miss. David Martin
FULL ARTICLEJames V., R.I.P.
What could we have been thinking, What did we have in mind When we sanctioned the aggression We see in…
FULL ARTICLEThomas Merton’s “Death Shout”
Before there was the “shower,” there was the “shout.” The great anti-war Trappist monk and writer, Thomas Merton, died suddenly…
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