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I'm pleased to share that my essay on antisemitism and ethno-nationalism in Henry Adams's Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904) appears in the current issue of Twentieth-Century Literature. For a short time it is available free of charge at the link below.
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Anti-Judaism and “American Genealogy” in Henry Adams’s Mont Saint Michel and Chartres | Twentieth-Century Literature | Duke University Press
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July 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I'm pleased to share that my essay on antisemitism and ethno-nationalism in Henry Adams's Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904) appears in the current issue of Twentieth-Century Literature. For a short time it is available free of charge at the link below.
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Many thanks to violinist Charles May for this delightful rendering of a tune I wrote for my daughter, entitled "Erin's Waltz." And yes, there are puppies!
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Erin's Waltz
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April 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Many thanks to violinist Charles May for this delightful rendering of a tune I wrote for my daughter, entitled "Erin's Waltz." And yes, there are puppies!
youtu.be/Ob_iB8kMECM
youtu.be/Ob_iB8kMECM
My wife and I are members of a private, breakfast table poetry club. On alternating mornings, we each, respectively, bring a poem to the table to read aloud. I give you my selection for today: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “England in 1819.”
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England in 1819
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to ...
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March 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My wife and I are members of a private, breakfast table poetry club. On alternating mornings, we each, respectively, bring a poem to the table to read aloud. I give you my selection for today: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “England in 1819.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45118/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45118/...
As my wife Heather notes in this morning’s Kansas City Star, our Kansas senators, Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, spoke up vigorously for Ukraine and called out Putin as a “thug” when Biden was in office, and now, under Trump, can’t seem to find their voices.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
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Kansas’ Moran, Marshall risk all Americans by staying silent on Trump’s Ukraine lies | Opinion
Both senators used to correctly condemn Vladimir Putin’s attack. The mother of a fallen veteran wants them to speak out again. | Opinion
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February 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
As my wife Heather notes in this morning’s Kansas City Star, our Kansas senators, Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, spoke up vigorously for Ukraine and called out Putin as a “thug” when Biden was in office, and now, under Trump, can’t seem to find their voices.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...