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Ken Burns’s The War

Posted on June 8, 2011June 8, 2011 Author Glaucon Comment(0)

Further to my previous post, here is a great summary of Ken Burns’s recent documentary “The War”, which is actually worse than his Civil War one.

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The fall of the United States?

Posted on June 6, 2011June 7, 2011 Author Glaucon

From the Guardian: Decline and fall of the American Empire Key passage: “Let me put an alternative hypothesis. America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain on the eve of the first world war: an empire at the zenith of its power but with cracks beginning to show. The experience of both Rome and […]

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V for Vendetta: A Culturally Poignant Exposé

Posted on November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 Author Sean Dempsey

V for Vendetta is more than just a movie or another piece of mindless fiction…it is a testament of our time and rare exposé detailing just what can happen (and really what might happen in this country) if we allow our rights to be taken away. The history of Guy Fawkes circles around his 1605 […]

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When Can We Get Underway, Dammit!?!

Posted on June 27, 2026June 27, 2026 Author Sean Dempsey

Created by Sean Dempsey with sources compiled by AI and some paragraphs tweaked by AI There is a scene in Titanic that ought to be carved over the entrance to every treasury department, congressional cloakroom, central bank, defense ministry, think tank, and marble-walled office where men with clean fingernails discuss the future sacrifices of people […]

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