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Educated: A painful, honest memoir of family vs. self

July 19, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Literature/Arts/Film, People Leave a comment

A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon

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The Warmth of Other Suns plus “Lift Every Voice” concert: A powerful combination

February 21, 2017 Susan Cunningham Civil Rights Leave a comment

  My experience recently at the “Lift Every Voice” concert at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis was much different than it would have

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Sharyl Attkisson book measures Obama and U.S. against a false standard

January 17, 2015 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Government, Media, Obama Leave a comment

In a recent Occasional Planet post, Susan Cunningham writes: “We can blame the NRA all we want, but the enemy, as Pogo said, is

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America loves war

January 5, 2015 Susan Cunningham Military, War One comment

I am reading James Risen’s latest book on how the military-industrial complex has morphed into the military-homeland security-intelligence complex. Risen is a New York

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Absolutism in political novels and in political reality: The Iron Heel

November 10, 2014 Adam Levin History, Ideas, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

One of my favorite essays of all time comes from old-school conservative writer Whitaker Chambers. In the late 1950s he reviewed Ayn Rand’s thousand-page

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Poverty & powerlessness, up close and personal

April 24, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Literature/Arts/Film, Poverty, Widgets, Widgets: Books Leave a comment

I’ve just read–two years after everyone else–Katherine Boo’s powerful book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. It won the 2012 National Book Award, and a blurb

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A Sliver of Light: Hiker hostages tell their story in an amazing new book

March 26, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Literature/Arts/Film, Prison Leave a comment

I’d almost forgotten about the three friends who, while hiking in Kurdistan in 2009, were lured across the Iraq/Iran border and then held prisoner

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Read me another: Children’s literature for politicians

October 8, 2013 Renee Shur Children, Humor, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Recently the American people were treated to a moment of sweet absurdity on the floor of the United States Senate.  You know what I’m

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Kingsolver’s new novel, Flight Behavior , delivers a powerful sermon on climate change

January 16, 2013 Susan Cunningham Climate Change, Language/Words, Literature/Arts/Film One comment

I’ve been listening to Barbara Kingsolver read her new novel, Flight Behavior, on my car CD player, and I have to wonder what the

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  • Ann Wagner: a hypocrite in her own words
  • The Incoming Biden Team: A Review
  • Time to Act: But what are the crucial goals?

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

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