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Robert Thurston

@thurstrw

Coffee roaster/retailer. PhD history U of Michigan. Books, articles on coffee, Russia, Stalinism, witch hunts, lynching, the body in the Anglosphere 1880-192.

 Oxford, Ohio
Joined October 2009
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White people, history, Trump: An Ill Wind blows no good for the coming election. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2024/…

White people, history, Trump: An Ill Wind blows no good for the coming election.

Back to the future: “The Shenandoah County [Virginia] School Board voted 5-1 [to rename several schools] Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, four years after the bo…

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Welcome to the "Magical Multiracial Past"* (and Present), or The Winner of Our Discontent. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2024/…

Welcome to the “Magical Multiracial Past”* (and Present), or The Winner of Our Discontent.

A Post about and not about Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the U.S. Important as those peoples are, larger issues about how we deal with the past are embodied here. I wish all the best to Native A…

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Cuba: Things I learned in 9 days (December 1-10, 2023) there, things I should have known before I went. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…

Cuba: Things I learned in 9 days (December 1-10, 2023) there, things I should have known before...

Me at Revolutionary Square. Cuba imports about 70-80% of the food its people eat. To say the least, this is not sustainable. What are the Cubans doing about the problem? Well, we saw small farms, r…

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Romance Novels: Secrets of their popularity (and politics) thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…

Romance Novels: Secrets of their popularity (and politics)

Yes, I read romance novels sometimes. Late in the evening when I don’t feel like watching a movie or a made-for series (“Daisy and the Six” is stringing out a one-line story way t…

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Attacks on Logic and American English by Academics Threaten to Destroy our Minds thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…

Attacks on Logic and American English by Academics Threaten to Destroy our Minds

Portrait of Joseph Brant, late 18th c., attributed to Gilbert Stuart, in the British Museum. Note that his clothing is partly European. Brant was a leader of the Mohawk people, one of the Five (lat…

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The War in Ukraine Again thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…
The War in Ukraine Again: There Is No Victory.

The War in Ukraine Again: There Is No Victory.

And Putin’s Approval Rating Rises in Russia Putin on the Ritz As the first anniversary of the war approached (Feb. 24), newspapers and magazines across the country published op eds about the …

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Mexico’s Problems–and Our Problems In and Outside Mexico (I would really welcome comments and corrections.) thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…

Mexico’s Problems–and Our Problems In and Outside Mexico (I would really welcome comments and cor...

Chapel interior, Botanical Garden, Puerto Vallarta Besides the problems of terrain and rainfall that I mentioned in an earlier post, I see these difficulties in Mexico (don’t get me wrong; I …

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Some Reflections on Mexico thurstrw.wordpress.com/2023/…

Some Reflections on Mexico

After spending two weeks in Mexico, I deem myself expert enough to make a few observations. The countryside, as I saw it outside of Puerto Vallarta (on the west coast south of Baja), outside of Mex…

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Talking about coffee on TV: a link to the show. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

Talking about coffee on TV: a link to the show.

As promised earlier, I was just on the real deal, WGN Chicago, talking about coffee. A quick, popular look at the vast subject, but fun to do, maybe fun to watch. Here’s the link: I.e., ̶…

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I will be on TV thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

I will be on TV

Talking about coffee, I will be on WGN Chicago, on a show called Backstory, 7-7:30 PM Central Time, 8 Eastern, Saturday, October 29. Rebroadcast Sunday at noon Eastern time. Later there will be a l…

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A Ukrainian “Victory”: At What Cost to the World? thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

A Ukrainian “Victory”: At What Cost to the World?

The many calls reverberating in the West–which now includes Ukraine, something that would have been almost unthinkable before 2014–for a Ukrainian victory over Russia should make the mo…

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I’ll talk about my new book thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

I’ll talk about my new book

9/22/22, 7 PM, Lane Public Library, Oxford, Ohio. Routledge, 2022 1901 From one of Bernarr Macfadden’s popular magazines. The pic and the idea of “woman’s physical developmentR…

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My list of the 5 best books on coffee–plus my own recent book. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…
My list of the 5 best books on coffee–plus my own recent book.

My list of the 5 best books on coffee–plus my own recent book.

I was asked by the administrators of a relatively new site “The Five Best Books on . . . ” to make a list of my 5 favorite books on coffee. Here is the link: My list is idiosyncratic, o…

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The Second Amendment and Guns in the U.S.: A Quick and Clean Guide thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

The Second Amendment and Guns in the U.S.: A Quick and Clean Guide

“Firearms are now the top cause of death among American children and adolescents.” Based on an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, April 21, 2022. And look at the line for &…

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What is the war in Ukraine about? Peace depends on the answer. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

What is the war in Ukraine about? Peace depends on the answer.

Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska Olena Zelenska recently appeared on the cover of Vogue Magazine. She is beautiful, and she and her husband make a supremely photogenic couple. The sto…

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How NATO, aka the U.S., helped get to the war in Ukraine, part something. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

How NATO, aka the U.S., helped get to the war in Ukraine, part something.

Ukrainian servicemen sitting in a bus as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022. The NY Times for Sunday, July 3 features two stories whic…

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The arguments for and against ammunition control and limits thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

The arguments for and against ammunition control and limits

A week ago, I published an op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer calling for controls not on guns but on ammunition. Since then, I have received a number of comments, mostly negative, about my ideas. He…

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Time to control ammunition, not guns. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

Time to control ammunition, not guns.

Today, June 5, 2022, The Cincinnati Enquirer published an op-ed by me on the necessity to control the amount of ammunition anyone can possess at one time. Here is a great photo of the problem; this…

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NATO, the U.S., and the Question of Responsibility for the War in Ukraine. thurstrw.wordpress.com/2022/…

NATO, the U.S., and the Question of Responsibility for the War in Ukraine.

The Russians are, of course, the aggressors in Ukraine. They have committed atrocities there and have destroyed a great many people, much property, and a large part of Ukraine’s economy. bodi…

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