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“Once there is a suspicion that a religion is a myth, its power has gone.” Alan Watts, The Wisdom of…
Born in a normal time, The periodic slaughter of millions By the civilized nations of the earth I grew to…
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The anthrax attacks that followed those of 9/11 have disappeared from public memory in ways analogous to the pulverization of…
A review of the culminating book in a trilogy by the preeminent authority on the assassination of Martin Luther King,…
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