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How to Build a City
The greatest monument in Paris is the city itself. There’s no other like it. It’s the suave sister its urban siblings long to be. But reconstructive…
32 mins ago • JD Breen
Green Fields, White Crosses
Beneath sunflowers swaying under gentle breezes were pestilential pits resembling waiting rooms in Hell.
Jul 8 • JD Breen
The Royal Cathedral
Our companion and guide since we arrived.
Jul 7 • JD Breen
Fruit of the Vine
From caves to chalice.
Jul 6 • JD Breen
The Fourth in France
Plane, Trains, and Automobile bring us to works of fire and the end of a war.
Jul 5 • JD Breen
The View from France
250 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, we view the event from the side of the ocean that made independence possible.
Jul 4 • JD Breen
Mourning in America
Commemorating the quintessential American act on the 250th anniversary of the day the states decided to do it, and remembering when their original…
Jul 2 • JD Breen
Warren’s Mistakes
How the world's greatest investor became what he warned against.
Jul 1 • JD Breen

June 2026

The Last Letter
Appreciation, reflection, and an appeal.
Jun 24 • JD Breen
The Maligned Speculator
Using fiction to convey facts.
Jun 20 • JD Breen
A Welcome Elixir
A German tourist visits the American South, and reminds the locals why they love it.
Jun 12 • JD Breen
Beside the Sea
A weekend amid old-world charm.
Jun 8 • JD Breen
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