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Book Review: Eat Well Live Well With Diabetes

Posted on July 25, 2024 by nathanalbright

Eat Well Live Well With Diabetes: Low-GI Recipes And Tips by Karen Kingham As someone who frequently looks at cookbooks to see how they handle different health conditions, I am still surprised by just how badly authors can mess up … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Vanished Kingdoms

Posted on July 6, 2024 by nathanalbright

Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise And Fall Of States And Nations, by Norman Davies This book operates a bit under a bait and switch principle, in that the chapter headings pick deliberately unfamiliar names (at least to Anglophone audiences) for kingdoms … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Languages Of The World

Posted on July 4, 2024 by nathanalbright

Languages Of The World: An Introduction, by Asya Pereltsvaig This book is generally a good one and unsurprisingly a pretty long one, and it seeks to introduce the reader to some of the immense diversity as well as unity within … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Second Founding

Posted on April 24, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Second Founding: How The Civil War And Reconstruction Remade The Constitution, by Eric Foner This book is a classic example of why someone cannot trust the reputation of contemporary historians when they seek to write history with an eye … Continue reading →

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Implausible Deniability

Posted on April 19, 2024 by nathanalbright

From time to time it is important to remember that denial is not only a river that runs through Egypt, but a river that potentially runs through every human heart and mind. Such is the case, it would appear, with … Continue reading →

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Book Review: You Are What You Speak

Posted on March 24, 2024 by nathanalbright

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, And The Politics Of Identity, by Robert Lane Greene This is a book whose subject is easy to get wrong. Indeed, as I began this book, I was deeply concerned that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Kingdom Of Speech

Posted on March 13, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Kingdom Of Speech, by Tom Wolfe It may not reflect well on my charity, but I have to admit that in reading this book I took a great deal of pleasure in seeing the uselessness of the career of … Continue reading →

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I Will Go To Him

Posted on March 3, 2024 by nathanalbright

[Note: These are the prepared notes for a sermonette given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, March 2, 2024.] According to Ward Lamon (as recorded by History.com), on the morning April 4, 1865, Abraham … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Gettysburg

Posted on January 8, 2024 by nathanalbright

Gettysburg, by Stephen W. Sears This particular book is precisely the sort of one-volume battle study one wants for a battle like Gettysburg. For nearly as long as it has taken since the battle itself, Gettysburg was viewed as the high … Continue reading →

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Feels Like Robbery

Posted on October 5, 2023 by nathanalbright

One of the things that has struck me the most so far in my travels in and around South Africa is that the prices for many things are so cheap. Currently, for example, the sun is breaking over Mossei Bay … Continue reading →

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