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  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 18 Aug 201918 Aug 2019

The New York Times Magazine devotes the entirety of this week’s issue to a single…

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  • Catalonia

Blowing Up Buses and Reciting Poetry: A Very Short Primer on Spanish Separatist Nationalisms

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 7 Aug 20197 Aug 2019

This post responds to a question raised by a reader of the earlier posts “Wilfred…

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  • The 'Foreign' Past

“Hispanic Invasion of Texas” – What, are you kidding me?

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 4 Aug 20194 Aug 2019

Once again we suffer the cost of an ignoramus with a gun putting the most…

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  • Catalonia

Wilfred Returns: From Flag to Fingers

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 2 Aug 20193 Aug 2019

Our prior post followed the narrative line from the real Wilfred the Hairy to the…

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  • Heritage

Wilfred the Hairy: Fake Blood at the Invention of a Nation

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 26 Jul 201928 Jul 2019

National flags, like national songs and sports and birds, don’t take hold of the imagination…

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  • Medieval

The Baseball Player and the Virgin Mary, Part II

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 21 Jul 201928 Jul 2019

Here is the sequel to the previous post, in which I demonstrated on the basis…

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  • Origin Stories

Baseball and the Virgin

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 19 Jul 201921 Jul 2019

Here is the first of two posts that make a great story. And what a…

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  • Heritage

Raccoons Past and Present

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 16 Jul 201916 Jul 2019

I am connecting you here to an episode of Radiolab, the radio program and podcast…

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  • Socialization

100 Soldiers –Learning to Possess the Past

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 14 Jul 201918 Jul 2019

Like Americans and every other people group devoted to maintaining an identity, Catalans participate in…

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  • Problems in Modern "-ism" Interpretations

The first Capitalists were Communists

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 3 Jul 201930 Jul 2019

The first capitalists were medieval merchants. From the entrepreneurial efforts of these merchants grew a…

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