Daily Archive: January 31, 2021

Wealth and Politics

/// January 31, 2021

On Wealth and Politics

Does wealth make people more economically conservative?

Marcel Proust

/// January 31, 2021

Sunday Morning! Finishing ‘In Search of Lost Time’ Vol. 2. by: Marcel Proust

As we finish Marcel Proust’s “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” our hero heads to the beach and meets an artist, a marquis, and a band of young girls who will alter the course of his life and imagination, whether or not he ever really knows them.

Fiction

/// January 31, 2021

The Archers and The Sacred Tree: A Fable

Once upon a time, a very long time ago when there were wolves in the forests and the future could be discerned through the observation of the flight of birds and the entrails of beasts

/// January 31, 2021

The Chairman of the House Committee

“You’ll make a great chairman. Congratulations”

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