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June 11, 2015 Oxford, England OK this is really getting ridiculous. Despite being the sacred keepers of the Catholic faith and trustees of the meek, the Holy See has just inked a deal with the US government putting the Pope in bed with the Internal Revenue Service. It’s so bizarre
June 10, 2015 Oxford, England If you’ve been a reader of Notes from the Field for any time, you’ve probably realized that history is a major passion of mine that routinely finds its way into this missive. 19th century English politician John Dalberg-Acton, who famously remarked “power corrupts, and absolutely
June 9, 2015 Oxford, England In the 5th century BC during the Golden Age of Athens, culture and intellect flourished in Ancient Greece more than at any other time or place in history up to that point. It was an amazing period of discovery. Philosophers Socrates and Plato, writers Sophocles
June 8, 2015 Paris, France I’ll be up front with you and say that this video is disturbing. It’s like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in the face of the dream world that most people are walking through. Watching riots on TV in places like Baltimore and Ferguson,
June 5, 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina If there’s one thing I love about Argentina, it’s that no rational person here trusts the government. They’ve been screwed over so many times before by their politicians (and the banking system), they know it’s all lies. Curiously it keeps happening. This place has
June 3, 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina My general rule of thumb when it comes to legislation is that the more high-sounding the name, the more insidious the law. Exhibit A: the just-passed USA FREEDOM Act. “Freedom”. It sounds great. So great, in fact, that they stuck it in the title
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