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James Hornfischer
My [second] cousin Jim Hornfischer died this month. Far too early: he was just three years older than I am. We were not very close. His family shared the occasional Christmas at Windywalls and he was Dungeon Master in a few well-run campaigns I played in as a teenager. He had an accomplished career asContinue reading “James Hornfischer”
Emmanuel Todd
Gail Kelly had us read Emmanuel Todd’s, The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems, shortly after it was first released in 1985. She loved the breadth of the work and I recall her musing, “Mr. Barker, wouldn’t it be wonderful to be French? To be so certain you were right?” That Gallic confidence – nay,Continue reading “Emmanuel Todd”