Tag: History and Culture

2020: Act II

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. Haldir The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien We’ve found that the intermission of 2020 is …

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Don’t Carry Me Back

Yes, Virginia, it’s been less than a month. I’ve always been proud to be from Virginia. A little less so in recent years. Even less in recent days. We’ve always known we had an ugly past. But in some ways, we thought we’d gone beyond that. We’ve always looked at scandals elsewhere and thought, that …

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