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Dispatch from the ambulatory school of the French Alps
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Iphigenia: A Poem
War, human sacrifice, and Marley (Jacob not Bob)
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Pleasure and Poetry: A Hedonist's Guide to Reading and Teaching Poetry
In much of the morose educational discourse about preparing the young for whatever the adults intend to prepare them for (it varies by educational…
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The Station Hall
Martinmas, Stachiewicz, the Reaper, and Veterans Day
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Reluctance to Shine
Marines, pewter, and poetics
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Austen to Junger: Ball room to battlefield
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Living in Human(e) Settlements
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Junger to Macarius: Spiritual Battles
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Part 3: Education Leadership and Religious Institutions
Final Essay: Destiny and Understanding the Conditions
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June's Reading List
Homer in Translation and Jung
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River of Blood
A Sonnet
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Part 2: Education Leadership and Religious Institutions
Immigration and Industrial Revolution: Work and Culture
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Adam's Curse
Adam's Curse
"There is no fine thing since Adam's fall but needs much laboring." -W.B. Yeats. Literature, leadership, and locale in an age of mass culture.
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