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Posts published in “Dr. Zack”

A Kingdom from Dust

How Stewart Resnick reaped a harvest of billions from arid land, cleverly marketed crops, and public water. 

Quackery on the Radio

In the 1920s and 30s, regulators and experts grappled with how to stop the sale of dubious devices and miracle cures over the airwaves. 

America is Spiritually Bankrupt

Cornel West on the collapse of integrity, honesty and decency in our public and private lives.

Red Dawn in Lapland

The author trains with Finnish soldiers on their 833-mile border with Russia.  

“Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet and philosopher believed that free will and intuition could help one transcend the physical world of the senses to a deeper spiritual experience. 

“Old Christmas” by Washington Irving

Chapter One. Christmas. There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and…

Dining with Attila the Hun

In the fourth and fifth centuries an invasion of nomadic tribes exploded out of the steppes of Central Asia into Europe throwing the Roman Empire…

London Burning in 1666

A conflagration of official blunders, mass hysteria and racist violence.

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