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Michael Walsh is a writer and reporter based in New York City. His work covers a wide range of topics but he’s particularly interested in civil liberties, psychology and the environment.

Michael Walsh: By reading further into what Goya meant ... Lopez: “It is the thesis of this book that the heroic narrative is not simply our way of telling ourselves comforting fairy tales ...