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Friday, May 2, 2025

World Press Day, an ideal moment to back the media

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      "We never make mistakes."       A credo for totalitarianism, echoing in my brain like a clanking chain after seeing the late...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Flashback 2004: Too cool to cavort 'round the maypole? Your loss

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  The Maypole, British, 1770s (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       I smiled, reading this after 20 years. I don't think I could quite mana...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Tolstoy offers a primer on Trump's power and its limits

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Leo Tolstoy      "War and Peace" is a great book.      That might come as a surprise, since most people have only one thought rega...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

' Do you attend library board meetings?'

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          Yesterday's column on wanting to keep my Chicago Public Library card was supposed to be a fun ode to libraries. I had not con...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

Banging on the library door

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    The Richelieu Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, or French National Library, in Paris.      They're taking my Chi...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

A whole new meaning to "It's cheaper to keep her"

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Ruth Snyder in the electric chair     I complain about being surrounded by lawyers — two sons, a daughter-in-law and a wife — but there are ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Independent Bookstore Day.

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The Book Bin's new location, 1929 Cherry, Northbrook      Happy Independent Bookstore Day! When I heard that the last Saturday in April ...
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