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Reflections from the eight decade on culture, politics and the human condition

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Year: 2024

  • Culture

Lord Byron: Poet of Passion and Paradox

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 17, 2024October 21, 2025
  • Culture & Humanity

What Books Are You Reading Right Now?

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 15, 2024May 14, 2025
  • Culture & Humanity

What is Good About Having a Pet?

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 13, 2024October 15, 2025
  • Politics & Society

Under the Surface: Football Violence and Rising Antisemitism in Amsterdam

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 12, 2024May 22, 2025
  • Daily Prompt Letters

Famous or Infamous: A Matter of Perspective

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 11, 2024May 8, 2025
  • Politics & Society

U.S. 2024 Elections: Ignorance is a Choice

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 6, 2024May 8, 2025
  • Opinion Pieces

The Dilemma of Resistance: Moral Integrity, Political Oppression, and the Limits of Nonviolence

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 31, 2024August 4, 2025
  • Culture & Humanity

Echoes of Time: Music as Memory and Meaning

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 27, 2024October 15, 2025
  • Opinion Pieces

Terrorism: The Price of Humiliation

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 25, 2024May 8, 2025
  • Culture & Humanity

What Major Historic Events do you Remember?

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 23, 2024May 8, 2025
  • European Union

The Economist: Europe Faces a Trump-Led America—Time to Rethink Its Geopolitical Future

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 19, 2024May 8, 2025
  • Culture & Humanity

Boundaries in the Age of Oversharing

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 18, 2024October 15, 2025

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Summary: Reflections from the eighth decade — on life, culture, and the state of the world. This blog offers quiet observations, drawn from a lifetime of watching, questioning, and remembering. The sun lowers, but still gives light.

Quote of the week: From Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) writer, activist, and noble prize winner and most relevant to the meaning of this quote, a holocaust survivor.

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