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Seminar discussion at the Witherspoon Institute, Princet... Offshore Core James Hankins Law & Liberty MARCH 24, 2021 Elite universities are abandoning traditional liberal arts education, but new institutions are filling the gap. Imagine you are a teenager newly arrived at college. You’ve had a couple inspiring teachers of literature or philosophy in high school and you’re eager to read some of t..

알렉산드리아 도서관을 가다 연호탁 가톨릭관동대·영어학 대학지성 2021.03.21 19:30 ■ 기획연재: 연호탁의 ‘말로 푸는 역사 기행’ (46)_ 알렉산드리아 도서관을 가다 “학자의 잉크는 순교자의 피보다 거룩하다”-- 무함마드 언행록 중에서 (좌) 19세기 독일 폰 코르벤의 작품 , (우) 알렉산더 대왕(1256년 작, Istanbul Archaeology Museum) 이집트 북단 지중해에 면해 있는 역사적 도시 알렉산드리아는 알렉산더 대왕의 명령에 따라 기원전 331년 4월 건설이 시작되었다. 그래서 도시 이름이 “알렉산더의 땅”이라는 의미의 알렉산드리아가 되었다. Alexandria를 아랍어로는 알-이스칸다리야, 이집트 아랍어로는 에스켄데레이야, 이집트인들의 원 모국어인 콥트어로는 라코디라고..

Philosophy & Religion The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience Philosopher Karl Popper famously asked how to tell the two apart. His answer—falsifiability—hasn’t aged well, but the effort lives on. Michael D. Gordin Boston Review Mar 23, 2021 Where do you place the boundary between “science” and “pseudoscience”? The question is more than academic. The answers we give have consequences—in par..

Phantasia Imagination is a powerful tool, a sixth sense, a weapon. We must be careful how we use it, in life as on stage or screen By Paul Giamatti and Stephen T. Asma AEON Paul Giamatti is a theatre, film and television actor living in New York City. Some of his notable performances feature in the HBO TV series John Adams (2008), the Showtime TV series Billions (2016-), and the films American S..

The Making of Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ How an unlikely best seller spawned academic feuds, global fame, entire subfields, and its author’s ambivalence. By Timothy Brennan The Chronicle of Higher Education March 19, 2021 Now an academic classic, Orientalism was at first an unlikely best seller. Begun just as the Watergate hearings were nearing their end and published in 1978, it opens with a s..

The Education Establishment Fears You Might Teach Your Kids Unapproved Ideas Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives. J.D. TUCCILLE | Reason 3.17.2021 (Illustration: Lex Villena; Source images: ID 181548361© Ljupco Dreamstime.com, ID 95956824© Szefei| Dreamstime.com) With families opting out of the faltering public schools in ever-growi..

Lessons from all democracies Democracy is not a torch passed from ancient Athens but a globally common form of government with much to teach us today David Stasavage Aeon 9 March 2021 David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences at New York University and the Julius Silver Professor in NYU’s Department of Politics. He also has affiliations in NYU’s School of Law and its Department of Hist..

Finding a Literary Inheritance Alexander Chee, Julia Cho, Susan Choi, and Cathy Park Hong The Yale Review Yale University 2021 I’ve recently had the sense that the subset of America I occupy—Korean America or whatever you want to call it—is having its moment. The crest of a wave of immigration that started in the 1960s (which my parents were part of) seemed to converge with South Korea’s emergen..

Orientalism and Its Afterlives Vivek Chibber CATALYST Vol 4 No. 3 Fall 2020 Edward Said’s Orientalism is one of the most influential books of the past fifty years. In a very brief span, it put a reckoning with colonialism’s legacy at the very heartof historical scholarship. In doing so, it instilled an anti-imperial sensibility into an entire generation of Western scholars. But even while it cas..

Turkey at the Crossroads? Cihan Tuğal New Left Review January–February 2021 Issue Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development..