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Homage to Catalonia By George Orwell 1938 Some weeks ago, my wife and I took a brief trip to Barcelona and Valencia. Although we had visited Spain several times in earlier decades, it was our first trip to these two cities on the Mediterranean coast. We found Barcelona to be
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Envy is a powerful force in the human race. And it raises its ugly head again and again in states like Massachusetts. We hear the mantra from so-called "progressives" over and over again: "The wealthy should pay more." Or they should pay "their fair share.
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On Monday, September 12th, Boston Trinity Academy opened the new school year with its annual Convocation chapel service. And for the first time in 13 years, iconic headmaster and founding trustee Frank Guerra did not lead the service. He, and his wife, Rebekah Guerra, also a founding trustee and later
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Kris Mineau died on September 3rd. A heroic pilot during the Vietnam war, a missions pastor at his church, and the leader of Massachusetts Family Institute for 15 years, Mineau was the embodiment of what the famous missionary Eric Liddell in the movie Chariots of Fire called "muscular Christianity.
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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins 2010 Bernard Cornwall, the author of The Fort, is the current undisputed master of historical fiction. He has written more than 40 historical novels, including twenty in the famed Richard Sharpe series, chronicling Sharpe's rise in
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life In China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter HarperCollins September 2020 We Have Been Harmonized is a must-read for those who want to comprehend the totalitarian state that China's President Xi Jinping has created since assuming power in 2012. Former Chinese leader
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Several weeks ago, my wife and I received postcards from Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin instructing us how to apply to vote-by-mail in the upcoming elections in the Commonwealth. The question is: Why?
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Night Soldiers By Alan Furst 1988 Night Soldiers is the first of fifteen spy novels that Alan Furst has written, all of which take place between 1933 and 1945 in Europe. The book, published in 1988, is the first in the series and arguably his best; but each book is