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Continue reading →: Making George Orwell Great Again
The new Trump Administration has been a boon for sales of George Orwell’s book 1984. The novel is a literary masterpiece. Originally published in 1949, it’s a dystopian novel about authoritarianism. The most famous quote, which you’ve probably heard at one time or another, is “Big brother is watching you.” The novel…
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Continue reading →: What Our Book Collections Can Tell Us About Ourselves
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. — Mark Twain I have a small study in my house. Well, it would be better to say I have a…
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Continue reading →: Remembering John Glenn (1921 – 2016)
The morning mists at Arlington National Cemetery were still visible as I stood watching the slow precision of the officers folding the U.S. flag. Everyone stood completely still as the ceremonial team of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) carried out this final symbolic act of a grateful nation. This…
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Continue reading →: My Thoughts on the Presidential Election
The morning after the November 8th presidential election, I jogged to the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall of Washington DC. I entered the memorial, where the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president is located, and stood there in meditative thought. Out of the profound silence I thought I…
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Jeff Wills 