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Taxis
A Magazine of History and Ideas
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Holly Case
Historian
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John Palattella
John has worked at The Nation, CJR, and other magazines.
Latest Posts
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Inheriting the Wind
Review of Unconscious: An Olfactory History of the Fingerhof Family
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The 89-ers Respond to the Collapse of Their Dreams
Ivan Krastev, Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder on the anti-liberal turn
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Who Remembers Paliomylos?
From the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus
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Riding in the Passenger Seat
On the trail of a serial killer
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The Gambit
Chess as family history
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I’m Staying
Seven Reasons Why I Remain in the Catholic Church
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Danube Revisited
A Bulgarian writer took a trip down the Danube with a group of photographers. This is what happened. (The first of a three-part series.)
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It Can Happen to US
In 1940, a twenty-four-year-old Peter Viereck warned of “The Coming American National Socialism.” He had some ideas for how to stop it.
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Beyond Tokyo and Jerusalem
Review of Silence. By Shūsaku Endō. Translated by William Johnston (1969). Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980, 294 pp.
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In the Back of Beyond
Reflections on the Black Sea
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