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History Rules!

 Steve Layman knows what many of us have long suspected: Everyone who did not do so wishes they'd majored in History.

It was my minor, but I have fond memories of classes on the history of France, the United States, the American Civil War, Britain, Rome, the Soviet Union, and Mexico.

Miscellaneous and Fast

 

• Available for Holocaust education: a virtual tour of Auschwitz.
• CBS News: The Biden administration is considering accepting refugees from Gaza.
• The trailer for the film about Lee Miller.
• Seth Mandel: "The Ignoramuses of Hamasville."
• The Trailer for "Presumed Innocent."
• Christos A. Makridis: More Americans fear speaking out on the job.

Writing What You Know

 The prolific Nicholas Bate on writing about what you know.

The author of "The Red Badge of Courage" would agree.

For Our Times

 

He Should Have Had the Robot from "Ex Machina"

The FutureLawyer hasn't just been buying smartwatches and lounging on the beach.

Here's a nifty ad.

The Prohuman Foundation

 FYI: I just joined the Board of Advisors for a newly-formed group: The Prohuman Foundation.

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"You Don't Know How to Weld?"

 

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First Paragraph

 On the outskirts of the thousand-year-old city lived a philosopher who taught that the world was simple and that happiness was within the reach of every man, instantly. A young man who was dissatisfied with life went to visit this philosopher to get to the heart of the matter. This youth found the world a chaotic mass of contradictions and, in his anxious eyes, any notion of happiness was completely absurd.

- From The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga