Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Elon Musk gets all the attention these days. But back around the turn of the century, when they merged their companies to form PayPal, Musk’s partner Peter Thiel was at least equally prominent. The German-American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, a...
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Archaeologists call them the Anasazi, a term that means “ancient enemies” of the Navajo. They were the ancestors of today’s Pueblo people, who regard the term as derogatory. They emerged as a distinct culture around the 12th century BCE in what is known today as the Four Corners...
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Scandalous. Notorious. Brilliant. But always entertaining. They were the Mitford sisters, and you could hardly pick up a newspaper in England in the 1930s without coming across them. Still, it was just three of the six who drew the most attention, and the most rumors. Unity, Adolf Hitler’s...
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Historians debate whether Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) had a material effect on the outcome of World War II. After all, they operated on the margins, behind enemy lines, never capable of...
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Those were heady times for the West as the old Soviet Union crumbled before our eyes. Gorbachev’s reforms. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The old guard coup that failed. Then the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself, the rise of Boris Yeltsin, and the free market reforms. For us, the changes...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.