Jamie Malanowski

Month: July 2018

JULY 2018: “SHE IS STRAIGHT OUT OF BAGHDAD BOB”

7.28 Bryn Stole in the Times: “in the last decade or so, the crowds at large scale re-enactments have dwindled. Longtime hobbyists are aging out and retiring — soldiers in their 50s and 60s filled much of the camp at Gettysburg — and younger people aren’t marching onto mock battlefields in nearly the same numbers. …

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JULY 2018: “THIS SAD, EMBARRASSING WRECK OF A MAN”

7.17 Megan McArdle in the Washington Post: The poor are still poor because, despite their material goods, they still lack public dignity and control over the most important facts of their lives, such as where they live and how their children are educated. By those measures, the War on Poverty is far from over; indeed, …

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