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What Once Was Lost: Unfinding and Refinding Music History By Bradford Morrow The Paris Review, October 6, 2017 On Music Félix Vallotton, Lady at the Piano, 1904. Courtesy the Hermitage Museum. Most of us have, at one time or another, put something valuable in a supposedly safe place and then forgotten where we left it. Car keys, wallets, eyeglasses, cell phones—wheth..

The Time of Our Lives Raymond Tallis The New Atlantis, Number 51, Winter 2017 pp. 25–44. When I wake up each morning, I am less likely to reflect that a new day has arrived than that yet another day has departed. What we unthinkingly call “the passage of time” tinges the first few minutes with apprehension. I am reaching the end of my sixties and, although the end is..

Imagination is ancient Stephen T Asma/The Aeon/Sept. 2017Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations Stephen T Asma Eland antelopes, buffalos and humans, Republic of South Africa, Harrismith, Balmoral 8,000-2,000 BCE. Watercolour by Maria Weyersberg, 1929. Courtesy Frobenius-Institut Frankfurt am Main ..

The Irish diaspora There are 70 million people around the world who claim Irish ancestry. What shaped and made the great Irish emigration? Kevin Kenny The Aeon Sept. 2017 Kevin Kenny is professor of history at Boston College. His latest book is Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (2013). From 1700 to the present, fully ten million Irish men, women and children left Ireland and..

The Meaning of Tolerance Liberal calls for “tolerance” are almost always hypocritical… by Alex Nichols Current Affairs August 28, 2017 “So much for the tolerant left!” This retort, in all its various permutations, has become the right’s go-to response to the suggestion that bigoted, harmful views should be met with anything less than unanimous praise. It often show..

A pre-history of post-truth, East and WestMarci Shore Eurozine1 September 2017 Postmodernism was conceived largely by the Left as a safeguard against totalizing ideologies. Yet today, it has been appropriated on behalf of an encroaching neo-totalitarianism of the Right. Is French literary theory to blame? And can a philosophy of dissent developed in communist eastern Europe off..

Imagination is a powerful tool: why is philosophy afraid of it? aeon.co 01 September, 2017 Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich. 1825-30. Courtesy Wikipedia Amy Kind is professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in California. She is the author of Persons and Personal Identity (2015). Philosophers have a love-hate relationship with the imagination..

Going Nowhereby Daniel Judt in Examined Life The PointAugust, 2017 Constance Furey Thank you. A wonderful piece about what we make of what our parents leave us. I’m trying right now to write about my own deceased parents, and so especially appreciate the clarity and delicacy of your account. Judith H Darsky I found your essay quite interesting. However I note the omission of ..

RaceStatue ManiaJonathan Beecheer Field The Boston Review Aug 24, 2017 Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere. A popular argument for preserving Confederate monuments is that one “can’t change history.” This notion muddles two distinct ways that we use the word “history.” “History” can mean something like “the past,..

Animal Spirits of Mongloia According to animist beliefs, nature is alive with spirits. That’s a problem when a mining boom is despoiling the landscape. The solution, as Alec Ash discovered in Mongolia, is to employ a shaman to intercede with the supernatural August/September 2017 August/September 2017 The rites began at dawn, as they do every year on the first morning of the..