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Facing up to the Truth

The Revisionist, Helen Schulman, Crown Publishers, 1998 The Revisionist is a work of fiction (with no affiliation or connection to the magazine that you are currently reading) that confronts psychological “denial” on multiple levels. Helen Schulman has written a fast-paced book in which her main character, a neurotic neurologist, David Hershleder learns to cope with…

Musidorus the Cannibal

© January 20, 2000 Joseph Sobran Long ago there was a bitter war between the kingdoms of Scythia and Bohemia. It began when the Scythian king, Lobo the Bold, claimed by ancient right some lands on the Bohemian seacoast, which he invaded, slaughtering the Bohemians who had lived there peacefully for many generations. The Bohemian…

Striped Fever

I remember well the plague, the old man muttered low,Its origins were vague, would were the outcome so!I think it started back, he said, when poor benighted dupesListened to the demagogues and split us into groups. Have pride! they cried, not in your deeds, nor even in your thoughts.Have pride! they cried, in social weeds,…

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