The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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It's social conservative spin, BUT

this which I noticed because Andrew Sullivan retweeted it, it's worth a look to see both:

1) what we will see more of as white male privilege is made the main bogeyman in our culture, and

2) how one can vie in the victimhood Olympics with selective stats:

Create a delusion: MAGA YouTube playlist!

Obama's favorite movies & TV shows of 2019

We had "Freedom Fries", they got:

" Vicente Fox 2020"

Schjeldahl''s "The Art of Dying", published Dec. 16, 2019

"The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany"

In 1919, John Maynard Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow from the Versailles peace treaty.

Guest op-ed by Dr. Jonathan Kirshner (professor of political science at Boston College) @ NYTimes.com, Dec. 7

On Dec. 8, 1919, Macmillan Press published a book by a relatively obscure British Treasury official who had resigned from the government in protest over the Versailles treaty that brought the epochal trauma of the First World War to its conclusion.

Brit election

a pox on all their houses:

Banksy

 

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the Rubens, https://t.co/MbeFHGQNMs
the Velasquez, https://t.co/FSDHmUZNUp
and the Bellotto, https://t.co/MDRILR15T9
from Sotheby's OMP sale in July. https://t.co/fikPjIXNIy

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