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Today's letters by Times of Malta readers

Probing the past to better understand the present and prepare for an uncertain future. I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly—in quantity or sophistication—in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in part a scholarly response to global warming, biodiversity loss, volatile and extreme weather events, and climate change–related diseases.

The Distant Mirror of Middle-Earth: The Sacramental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien by C. N. Sue Abromaitis

I read Barbara Tuchman’s National Book Award-winning “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century” when it first came out in 1978.

The federalism of the American founders provides a way to contain Americans’ cultural differences within the political system and maintain order.

The federalism of the American founders provides a way to contain Americans’ cultural differences within the political system and maintain order.

“The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.” — Barbara Tuchman, citing Tuchman’s Law in the preface to her 1978 narrative history, “A Distant Mirror.” One...

The border crisis that we have in the United States is part of the cycle of disease that our model has been projecting. In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed that they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. Then a second confirmed case appeared on June 23 rd in Texas, discovered in

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News of the unending stream of brutality, violence and carnage in America; the daily killings, the mindless shooting of children and adults, the pushing of folks into the path of oncoming trains and other traffic, police brutality and the vicious partisan struggle for political power, brings to the mind of the outsider the subtitle of Hans Habe’s book about his travel across the American continent in 1963; ‘Anatomy of Hatred, The Wounded Land, Hans Habe, (George C Harrap & Co. Lt...