An Explanation, If One Is Owed Dear reader, whomever you may be – whether a faithful friend who has waited with admirable patience these three years past, or a curious new arrival who has discovered this little corner of the web only today – welcome, and welcome back. Coming back to the desk after three years away, I owe you a word of explanation first, and then, I think, a modest resumption of the work. The silence, if I may dignify it with that word, was not intended. I did not sit down at my desk in the late summer of 2023 and decide that I would withhold my rambling counsel from the world for a period of three years and some months. Had you asked me then, I would have told you – with the specific conviction of a man about to be comprehensively wrong – that I was […]
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