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Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Beautiful, Suggestive, and Not Quite Convincing: A review of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

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  Zoë Schlanger ’s The Light Eaters : How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth is an elegant...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Yiyang Zhuge: Translating Hannah Arendt Across Worlds

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  Yiyang Zhuge translator of Hannah Arendt and Plutarch At a recent conversation hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City, Roger ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Geography, War, and Power: Ian Morris’s Grand Argument

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  Across Why the West Rules, for Now, War! What Is It Good For? , and Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris advances one of the most...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

"Until August" by Gabriel García Márquez: A Review

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  Gabriel García Márquez ’s Until August ( En agosto nos vemos ), published more than a decade after his death, is a slender, lovely final ...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Why I Am No Longer a Democrat

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  Torch carrying Nazis at the Unite the Right Rally In 2017, torch-carrying neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not rep...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Musée Marmottan Monet: History, Collection, and Serene Beauty

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 Tucked away in Paris's 16th arrondissement , the Musée Marmottan Monet is one of city's quietly beautiful museums. It lacks the cr...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Review: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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  Review: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner With reflections on Casey Cep ’s introduction and Faulkner’s racial legacy Reading The...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Anselm Kiefer in the Panthéon--The first major new art installation in the Pantheon in a century

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  I returned to the Panthéon after previous visits over the past decade, to see the first new art exhibit in crypt of the Republic in a ce...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations and the Moral Backbone of the American Founders

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  When Marcus Tullius Cicero retreated to his villa at Tusculum in 45 B.C., he was a man in mourning. His daughter Tullia had died, the R...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Former Foes, Now Allies! My New Friend Ihor was on the other of the Cold War

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  Ihor Chernik and I in the Cannon Congressional Office Building (Good pun, soldiers in the Cannon building....) Today and tomorrow I am on...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Tragedy of Vietnam After Roosevelt’s Death

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President  Franklin Delano Roosevelt The death of a single leader can shift the course of nations, topple empires, and condemn millions to s...