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Rod Dreher
Feb 27, 2022
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I apologize for being late to write. Since the war started in next-door Ukraine, it has been hard to think about anything else. I’m going to make this into a two-parter.

The other day, I was walking down Bartok Bela Street (in Hungary, last names come first) and saw these two buildings side by side. That’s socialist architecture on the left, traditional …

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