delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

what the slaves ate -- 1/31/22

religious painting and idolatry -- 1/28/22

the paradox of war -- 1/27/22

galileo, kepler, and brahe -- 1/26/22

dictators and virility -- 1/25/22

lincoln was overmatched – 1/24/22

all you need is love -- 1/21/22

jean-michel basquiat -- 1/20/22

quantum mechanics -- 1/19/22

the battle for spain -- 1/18/22

the strangeness of fame - 1/14/22

the constitution was designed to curb democracy -- 1/13/22

epidemics -- 1/12/22

the sun king -- 1/11/22

the case for a debt jubilee -- 1/10/22

"crops without plowing the ground" -- 1/7/22

the first contested presidential election -- 1/06/22

rooster booster -- 1/5/22

the dominance of the dutch -- 1/4/2022

quiet days on wall street -- 1/3/22