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Daily Archives: June 4, 2013
My 2006 Paper (for a Class) about the Pharisees
There is talk within the blogosphere about the Pharisees (see here and here), so I decided to post here a paper that I wrote for a class back in 2006. The paper is about scholarly debates regarding the Pharisees. The … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Rabbinics, Religion, School
Tagged john meier, marginal jew
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Ambrose’s Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 19
In my latest reading of Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972, Stephen Ambrose begins his discussion of the Watergate scandal. He tells us at the outset that so much has been written about the Watergate scandal, and that his … Continue reading
Norman Thomas and Huey Long
I’ve been reading W.A. Swanberg’s biography of Socialist Norman Thomas, entitled Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. Swanberg talks about Thomas’ relationship with Huey Long, the controversial populist Governor of Louisiana. Essentially, what I get out of Swanberg’s description is that … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Political Philosophy, Politics
Tagged american civil liberties, American Civil Liberties Union, civil liberties union, Huey Long, new orleans times picayune, Norman Thomas, personal fortunes, w a swanberg
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