“First do no harm.” Not an actual quotation from the Hippocratic Oath, but sound advice for physicians and politicians. Crafters of the newly approved platform of the Democratic Party took it to • Read More »
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Waiting for the Barbarians
August 16, 2020 | By eric.terzuolo | No Comments | Filed in: Historical Analogies, Immigration. 
Waiting for the Barbarians is certainly an imperfect movie. The performances by Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp, for example, are one-dimensional, and the latter regrettably seems reduced to doing caricatures • Read More »
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