Today we’re marking Kristallnacht, A protest of an assassination Committed by a Jew. In case you haven’t noticed, It’s a…
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Rory Finally Runs the Table
When he was one-and-twenty, He smelled Masters victory, But he shot a closing 80, And it was not to be.…
FULL ARTICLECorrecting the Merton Death Record
After fifty years of misinformation, Two things need to be said: Thomas Merton wasn’t wet from a shower, And there…
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Fuel beneath a cauldron of hate At the heart of the Middle East mess; Protecting an ethnic-supremacist state, Defending its…
FULL ARTICLEThomas Merton’s Stage-Prop Fan
To the tune of “Secret Agent Man” There was a nice floor fan he used for cooling; They rigged a…
FULL ARTICLESidney Rittenberg
Guest article by Larry Kessler, Professor of Chinese history, UNC-Chapel Hill, written in July 2012 Biographical summary Sidney Rittenberg was…
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