Welcome to the parallelsversusdictators.org blog page, where I post brief essays and other information relevant to themes in Parallels, available in either paperback or ebook at amazon.com/books, barnesandnoble.com, books-a-million.com, and other online and retail outlets.
If you liked the essay on Juan de Pareja (my oil sketch of his famous portrait appears near the end of parallelsversusdictators.org), then visit here for new postings frequently added on topics ranging from politics to scientific innovations, linguistics, etc.
“Hey Paul!” you say, “what’s linguistics got to do with your book’s themes? Okay, I get that politics relates to your book, but language studies??” Well, it’s not far-fetched when you consider that isolationism—the idea that Americans should be economically, politically and culturally aloof from the rest of the world—is part of the new “America First” doctrine. (Actually, the slogan originated with Charles Lindberg and other folks, who suddenly dropped the idea when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and we entered Word War II.) Language is a two-edged sword, equally capable of delivering truths and promoting lies.
But I’ll save topics like linguistics for future blog posts.
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