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David Holdridge

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The Avant Garde of Western Civ: A Memoir

The Avant Garde of Western Civ: A Memoir

A disabled American veteran-- from Chu Lai to bedding down with the benighted in the Arab world.

2017

David Holdridge

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Israel at war with the PLO

Leaving Beirut….June 1982

Nov 22, 2023

Nov 22, 2023

David Holdridge
in
the Cafe

The Others

‘THE OTHERS’

Oct 17, 2023

Oct 17, 2023

David Holdridge
in
the Cafe

We Have Often Been Culled Before

You don’t have to be within eye-shot of the great plains to know about the “culling’’ of the herd. Where I grew up, near a small farm in…

Aug 27, 2022

Aug 27, 2022

David Holdridge
in
the Cafe

OLD

As I turn older and fear more than is sensible about pretending the language and the sentiments of youth — given the deep insinuated animus…

Sep 9, 2020

Sep 9, 2020

David Holdridge
in
the Cafe

Leonard and the boy — — 1962

It was still night when I boarded the bus, three levels deep in the Chicago terminal. Even at that ungodly hour it was full of commotion…

Aug 27, 2020

Aug 27, 2020

David Holdridge

A Confusion of Truths

For most of us, Scientific Method was mother’s milk. What had begun with Newton and his contemporaries had come to imbue much of our…

Aug 15, 2020

A Confusion of Truths

Aug 15, 2020

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YANG

I am no savant but it seems to me that most pols and pundits seeking to address the future of the American economy are missing some…

Aug 21, 2019

Aug 21, 2019

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“THAT GOOD NIGHT”

Climate Change..a contrarian view.

Jul 6, 2019

Jul 6, 2019

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Photo by Annie

THE END OF GENDER

Apr 21, 2019

Photo by Annie

Apr 21, 2019

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A Dead End in Algeria — 1966

The taxi man outside was the first to smile and that was for money. His arm swang over the back of the seat and dropped by our knees. His…

Dec 31, 2017

Dec 31, 2017

David Holdridge

David Holdridge

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Author of Avant Garde of Western Civ. Stalwart for the American narrative overseas from 1969 to 2016. http://www.avantgardeofwesternciv.com

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