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:

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