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Today, May 8, is the annual memorial day commemorating the end of WWII. Which is still playing out these days…
Today, May 8, is the annual memorial day commemorating the end of WWII. Which is still playing out these days…
I was never attracted to or interested in Russian culture, in the slightest. I read things like Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and was even touched for a while by a period of
“In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.” ― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born (1973)
Today in 1924, The New York Times ran a story that did not hold up well at all. And here is Laurence Tribe’s take on such history, past and future:
By way of Twitter: And another way that history past intersects with history present: Looking in these eyes, especially on a laptop screen, truly give the sense of this child’s
Fascinating maps of the spread of Buddhist teachings of self-liberation throughout Asia. Starting 500 years before the birth of Jesus, Buddhism spread through vast oceans of humanity without a single