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Weekend Edition: 8-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

Nothing I Learned As A Historian Over 45 Years Prepared Me For This Moment (“But a mass cult built around an old man known for lying and grifting who bronzes his face each day? Didn’t see that happening. Nor did I anticipate that tens of millions would refuse a […]

Pope Pius XII’s Perfidious Physician

More than 60 years after his death, debate still surrounds the action or inaction of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. Echoes of controversy that arose upon his death have receded, though. That’s the uproar caused by the actions of the pope’s personal physician.

Born Eugenio Pacelli in Rome in 1876, Pius XII held several […]

Weekend Edition: 8-14

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

How the Pandemic Now Ends (“Vaccines remain the best way for individuals to protect themselves, but societies cannot treat vaccines as their only defense.”)

Nonbookish Linkage

What exactly is stupidity? How to tell your child about the end of the world Historians can’t leave the teaching of history to […]

Panning my favorite books

For years, this blog’s had a page for what I call my Desert Island Books. It’s a take-off on BBC radio’s “Desert Island Discs,” where guests pick the eight recordings they’d want with them if stranded on a desert island.

I’m well aware of how opinions of books can vary. You know, one person’s treasure […]

Weekend Edition: 8-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

Sell This Book! (“The point of a library is to preserve, and in order to preserve, a library must own.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

I Appreciate When Men Interrupt Me Even If I’m Trying To Tell Them There’s A Fire

Nonbookish Linkage

Why do we have to die? […]