After sitting on my reading list for years, I finally got to The Leopard by Lampedusa (strangely for me, just after I finished the book, the NY Times ran two articles about Lampedusa and his 50 year old book). It was riveting, but in a way that was hard to explain to others - I [...]

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Key themes in this year’s American election includes the role of government in providing healthcare, the scale of our overseas military operations, and of course, taxes. It seems we’ve been debating, essentially, the same things for more than 200 years. Paine’s Common Sense appeared when the young country was still trying to figure out the role [...]

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