What I LEarned in the Gulag
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Kolyma Stories ^
| 2018 | Varlam Shalamov
For fifteen years the writer Varlam Shalamov was imprisoned in the Gulag for participating in “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities.” He
endured six of those years enslaved in the gold mines of Kolyma, one of the coldest and most hostile places on earth. While he was awaiting sentencing, one of his short stories was published in a journal called Literary Contemporary. He was released in 1951, and from 1954 to 1973 he worked on Kolyma Stories, a masterpiece of Soviet dissident writing that has been newly translated into English and published by New York Review Books Classics this week. Shalamov claimed not...
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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
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americanthinker.com ^
| January 16, 2018 | Karin McQuillan
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life
was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause...
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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
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American Thinker ^
| January 17,2017 | Karin McQuillan
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life
was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause...
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"What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa, Trump is Right."
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American Thinker ^
| Karin McQuillan
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life
was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. ... Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization...
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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
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The American Thinker ^
| 01/17/18 | Karin McQuillan
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life
was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause...
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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa
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The American Thinker ^
| 17 January 2018 | Karin McQuillan
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life
was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment." . . . snip For the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and treasure America more than ever. I take seriously my responsibility to defend our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next generation.
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