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3 weeks ago | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
Renewed global order must fire our hearts and hopesWe took the bullet train to Hiroshima, 150 of the smoothest miles I’ve ever traveled to the most disquieting site I’ve ever seen. Without quite knowing it, I had long been preparing for this journey, bearing with me a lifetime of images, arguments, lyrics; of anxiety, disbelief, dread.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
agrinews-pubs.com | Eric Miller |Eric Monticello
It continues to look fantastic. We just got through one of the coolest and wettest Julys on record for Illinois, so that’s a good combination for crops. Our weather station had about seven and a quarter inches of rain for July. Boy, does that make double-crop soybeans look good. They have never looked better. They are just fantastic this year. They have a long way to go, but they have a great start and I would say they have never looked better at this time of the year.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
magnetmagazine.com | Eric Miller
The phrase “like nothing you’ve ever heard” really only works when you’re talking about 10cc, the best—and, possibly, last—of 20th-century music’s true English Eccentrics.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
On the return of ‘warmth, bloom, and song’Summer isn’t just a season. Or a state of mind. It is an imperative. In the hope of insight about what to do with summer, we will feature a series of essays over the next two months on the theme of summering. ***Gershwin says the livin’ is easy, come summertime. Teasey’s more like it. In fact, summer’s the biggest tease of all. The winds of paradise blow warm, blow sweet.
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May 23, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
At 71, John Hiatt’s still showing us how it’s done1. May 2004Mr. Smalls used to be St. Ann’s. The church opened in 1924 along the Allegheny River in the old Pittsburgh neighborhood of Millvale, about four miles from Pittsburgh’s famous “point,” the confluence that forms the Ohio. St. Ann’s closed in 1998 and reemerged in 2002 as a music venue. My wife and I arrive for a concert imagining that we’d bought seats.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
This election season Pennsylvanians have come out swinging—againFor the first time in ten years none of our kids came home for spring break. So we reverted to form and drove east to the folks, a four-day jaunt that looped around about fifty percent of Pennsylvania: from metro Pittsburgh up to I-80, east atop the mountains, down along the Juniata and the Susquehanna into York, then west on hilly Route 30 to Bedford.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Susan McWilliams Barndt |Dominic A. Aquila |Eric Miller
Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him? When Christopher Lasch died at age sixty-one on Valentine’s Day, 1994, the nation lost a man who for many embodied the very definition of the term intellectual.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
In search of the real thingAmid the din surrounding artificial intelligence, I keep thinking about two other words: authentic humanity. Many touchstones come to mind, among them:âThe life of my paternal grandmother, who died in 2019. When the Great Recession hit in 2008, she exclaimed âGood! Maybe weâll start to live together again!ââA 2013 conversation in the hull of a World Vision boat with a Brazilian woman whose family lives along the Rio Negro in Amazonas.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
currentpub.com | Eric Miller
In this final week of the year, The Arena is taking a break from new content, but I hope you will enjoy some highlights from this past year: posts and interviews that were popular with readers when they first ran, but also incite us to think more deeply about various aspects of human flourishing and the intellectual life in this season of celebration, reflection, and planning for the new year. What is the focus of your current book project?
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Eric Miller
In this final week of the year, The Arena is taking a break from new content, but I hope you will enjoy some highlights from this past year: posts and interviews that were popular with readers when they first ran, but also incite us to think more deeply about various aspects of human flourishing and the intellectual life in this season of celebration, reflection, and planning for the new year. What is the focus of your current book project?
