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Essay The Shakespeareans Brooke Allen The Hudson Review, Spring 2020 Issue The Club: no literary club has ever equaled the one founded in London in 1764 by Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, and a handful of others, and which came to include the very brightest intellectual, artistic and political stars of the late eighteenth and early nineteen..

Why Bats Are One of Evolution’s Greatest PuzzlesPaleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><img src="https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/SUicEUHOSeC39DlMYKH3-DwQJo4=/800x600/filters:no_upscale():focal(1252x758:1253x759)/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/9f/51/9f51ec12-adc6-4322-85b3-8a8a..

문화학술 예수 가시관을 프랑스가 품은 까닭은 토요판] 주명철의 프랑스 역사산책 ⑦ 시테 궁전과 생트 샤펠 한겨레신문2020.4.18 루이 9세, 파리를 기독교 중심 만들려 당대 최고 보물인 가시관 등 성유물 거액 들여 비잔틴제국에서 사들여 시테섬에 ‘경건한 예배당’ 신축 프랑스혁명 뒤 ..

Annals of InquiryWhat Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? Crises are, at least while they are happening, not educational opportunities. But there are still things to learn. By Agnes Callard The New YorkerApril 11, 2020 Humanists, usually masters of inactivity, should be well-equipped to deal with a pandemic. What does it mean if they can’t?Illustration by Julien PostureUniversi..

Learning Latin by Joseph Epstein The First Thing April 2020 Some people acquire foreign languages more easily than others. I, alas, am one of those others. I cannot truly say that I have possession of any foreign language. I have perhaps two hundred or so words of Yiddish—just enough to fool the Gentiles into thinking I know the language, but not enough to speak to real Jews..

The Cant-HunterWhat George Orwell can still teach the Left By George ScialabbaCommonwealMarch 25, 2020 George Orwell (Photo © Vera-Archives / Bridgeman Images) Conscientious Christians (sometimes non-Christians too) are wont to ask in tricky situations: “What would Jesus do?” Fortunately the New Testament is fairly compact and can be read through in a week, even at a rel..

The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher review – the dark side of the Italian Renaissance The Renaissance in Italy was an era of terror and oppression more than beauty – but is its great art complicit in injustice? Should we rethink the Mona Lisa’s smile? Charles Nicholl The Guardian Thu 12 Mar 2020 07.30 GMT Victim of violenceTitian’s Venus of Urbino (c1534). ..

Footnotes to Plato|EssayFriedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible Brian Leiter examines Nietzsche's conception of what makes life worth living By Brian Leiter TLS Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now..

The Power of NamingA technology for mastering the world Cecilia SjöholmCabinet, Fall 2017–Winter 2018 In Genesis, Adam is given the task of naming the animals. God sends them to parade before him, and he gives them names. This ur-scene of naming is at the heart of the European grand debates over the origins of knowledge. Adam’s task cannot just have been performed random..

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