John Brown's Notes and Essays

Monday, June 25, 2018

'Flawed, goofy' plan to split California into 3 states needs to win over skeptics - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"

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Samuel Metz, Palm Springs Desert Sun, USA TODAY  image from article PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs have h...
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Sunday, June 24, 2018

San Francisco is the worst US city for you to retire in. Here's why

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Darla Mercado, CNBC, USA TODAY Come to San Francisco for the scenery, just don't plan on retiring there. That's because it...

‘Get so close — and nothing happens’: Congress’s record on immigration is repeated failures - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

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Paul Kane, Washington Post , June 23 Image from article, with caption: People gather at Saint Mark Catholic Church for a solidarity w...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

How Britain Lost Its Power of Seduction

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Aatish Taseer, New York Times , June 22 Excerpt: As an unapologetic “anywhere,” I am in the grip of a nostalgia of my own. I find m...

Our Real Immigration Problem

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Bret Stephens, New York Times , June 21; original article contains links Image from article, with caption: New American citizens at a...

Looking for work? From San Jose to Charleston, these are the 10 best markets for jobs

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Charisse Jones, USA TODAY (Photo: AP) Unemployment reached an 18-year low last month, slipping to 3.8%. But for those who are still sea...

Beyond Trump’s separation of migrant families lies a real border crisis that is proving bigger than the presidency

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David Nakamura, "Beyond Trump’s separation of migrant families lies a real border crisis that is proving bigger than the presidency...
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John Brown
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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