A scholar recovers from illness and, abandoning societal constraints and his wife, pursues his own desires and a profound, amoral freedom.

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Set Sail for School is listed in Publishers Weekly's Fall 2026 Children’s Sneak Previews!

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“..be a person who is fearless, incorrigible, free. A friend of free expression and the truth. And intent on calling a fig a fig and a trough a trough..”

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Blog | Donald E. Brown Disillusioned With Life | The novel "Eugene Onegin" was written while Pushkin was in forced exile. He wrote nine chapters in lyrics, but before he published it. Pushkin self-

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An autocracy has been built on the structures and norms of the American gov’t: concentration of power in the executive branch, and the marriage of $ and politics.

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“..my hair was hardening into bristles, my ..skin was roughening to a hide.My toes and fingers…clotted into solid hoofs;”

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Night Train to Lisbon A philosophical novel about a reserved Swiss classics professor, Raimund Gregorius, who abandons his life after a mysterious encounter, traveling to Lisbon to investigate the so...

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19th-century Russian writers, whose works and lives I have studied since upper school, captured the contradictions pulling Russian society apart.

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Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave. (Jorge Manrique)

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Some news to share: BookLife’s review of my book Red Flash will appear in the March issue of Publishers Weekly. Another meaningful step for the book.
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“…much to admire in this moody, character-driven thriller.”
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Explore why the early Christian church preferred to promote an image of a man named Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather then a politically conscious revolutionary.
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Read to feel at home in the world, to know a little something of the best that has been thought, believed, and created by great minds.

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Everything is inverted in Dostoevsky’s Demons: freedom ends in despotism, care turns to hatred, clarity increases blindness.
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“A mind not agitated by hard questions cannot appreciate the significance of the best answers.” (Mortimer Adler)

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Certain gifted individuals have shown a proclivity for living alone and apart. I so share that sentiment.

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“All struggles Are essentially power struggles, …essentially power struggles…are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Healthcare Dominance It began with a shared secret at a recent Davos Summit. Five executives, bonded by paranoia over looming antitrust hearings, found common ground in a different vulnerability: the...

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Bowing To Evil The questionable victory was celebrated with bonfires that smelled, faintly, of sulfur. He stood on the stage, his smile revealing a gash of yellowish-white teeth in the spotlights. He...

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“I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, So he will buy my service with his soul.”

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While reading the works of Cicero, it dawned on me that in a society envisioned by the “make America great again” crowd Cicero would probably have his tongue cut out.

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “..night arrest is a favorite..Everyone… is thrown into a state of terror by the first knock at the door. The arrested person is torn from the warmth of his bed…in a daze, hal...

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The Enlightenment(1680-1790) was the foundation-head of religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and press. Look at us now!

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Raymond Aron, a French contemporary and schoolmate of Jean-Paul Sartre, opined, there would always be men tempted to overthrow or undermine a free society.

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) “One November afternoon, in the calm at the end of a rain-storm of several days’ duration, when the sky was still completely overcast and the air was full of mist,..the pond was remarkably smooth,….th...

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) The People Wrote The Ending The tyrant ruled by fear, his mask of power unchecked, unchallenged. But in shadows, individual resisters gathered the truth: ledgers of stolen wealth, recordings of whisp...

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The ability of the Iroquois to live in harmony with nature and create a democratic decision-making process, refined Paine’s thinking on how to organize a society.

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) On October 9, 1888, Anton Chekhov wrote a letter to a friend stating: “I have not yet acquired a political, religious, or philosophical worldview; I change my views every day and consequently have to ...

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“Live Not By Lies”
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