Today, dear readers, I invite you to enjoy one of my favorite short stories: Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If you have read it already, please reread it. (It’ll be good again. I promise.) It will take you 10 or 15 minutes at the most, but it will stay with you for the rest … Read more
There is a fascinating piece at The Independent this morning on a new exhibit at the National Socialism Documentation Centre, on what the Nazis bizarrely tried to do about Christmas. (Jesus was Jewish, you see—a bit of a problem for the Third Reich.) How about recasting Santa Claus as the Norse god Odin? Of course, … Read more
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