I asked for wonders instead of happiness, Lord, and you gave them to me.
–Abraham Joshua Heschel
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- A Two-Horned Approach to Bringing Back the Aurochs
- The Hildesheim Treasure
- A Moderate Man in a Partisan Age
- Somniloquy: Selected Passages
- Barbara Ehrenreich's Wild God, or, Mystics and The...
- New Power Plants in the US
- Obama and Trump
- The Last Man in the Village
- RIP Carrie Fisher
- RIP Richard Adams
- A Prayer for the New Year
- The Twilight of the Svans
- The Highest Melting Point
- Mind Reading
- The Yugoslavian Mariachi Craze
- Armand Point: Drawings
- Fake News and the Truth Problem
- Today's Place to Daydream about: Orvieto, Italy
- Defending Leptis Magna
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- Moderation
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- Fighting Inequality
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- The Hair Dryer Incident
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- Not Taking Politicians Seriously
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- Why So Many Viral Stories are False
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- Charles Demuth: Flowers
- Freedom of Zion, 67 CE
- Now We're Stressed Out
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- Boeing, Iran, and Trump
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- Dinosaur Feathers in Amber
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- The Freed Slaves of St. Helena
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- Modern Races are Recent Mixtures
- Otto Rieth, Villa Staudt, 1900
- Mistrusting Our Own Minds
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- Voters and the EU
- Amber Boar, Roman 2nd Century CE
- An Analysis of Rising College Costs
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- Truth, Lies, and Power, Part 1
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- John Singer Sargent, Statue of Perseus by Night
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
Sounds more like a lament of the old year than a prayer for the new one.
That said, I find a broader perspective to be mildly comforting. 2016 wasn't great, but 1916 was unimaginably worse, and 1816 was no picnic either.
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