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‘For a goshawk, it sometimes seems as if life is simply nature’s way of keeping meat fresh,’ observes photographer and filmmaker James Aldred in Goshawk Summer (2021). Photo by Mike Powles/Getty Nature does not care Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead of the sharp-eyed realism the natural world deserves by Richard Smyth + BIO AEON, 12 April, 2022 Richard Smyth wri..

Liberty and the Conquest of Chance Greg Weiner National Affairs Current Issue At around 9:40 A.M. on November 1, 1755, an earthquake originating beneath the Atlantic Ocean struck Lisbon, Portugal, with the force of 32,000 atomic bombs. Churches collapsed, burying worshipers gathered for All Saints' Day. Survivors of the quake fled to the bank of the Tagus River where, half an hour later, a tsuna..

Routine Maintenance Embracing habit in an automated world by Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper's Magazine, January 2022 issue Of all the attempts to pinpoint the origin of modernity—an exercise of which modernity never tires—my favorite begins with medieval monks. According to this account, it was the Benedictines who came up with the idea that it was possible to do the same thing, at the same time, ever..

The Temptations of Tyranny Destruction of statues during the Cultural Revolution, 1967 / Getty Images Peter Hughes Quillette 13 Nov 2021 When Shigalyov, one of the revolutionaries in Dostoevsky’s Demons, lays out his “system of world organization,” he admits that he got “entangled in my own data.” Confronted with the brutal logic of his idealism, he is forced to concede that his conclusion “dire..

[백성호의 한줄명상] 중앙일보 입력 2021.09.22 05:00 백성호 기자 백성호의 현문우답 구독 ‘백성호의 현문우답’ 외 더 많은 상품도 함께 구독해보세요. “내가 행복하길 원한다면 다른 사람도 마찬가지다.” 이스라엘 성지 순례를 갔을 때입니다. 예루살렘의 골고다 언덕은 예수님이 십자가 처형을 당한 곳입니다. 지금도 예루살렘 성에서 직선으로 800m 거리에 골고다 언덕이 서 있습니다. 예루살렘의 골고다 언덕에는 성묘 교회가 있다. 기독교에서는 성지 중의 성지로 꼽히는 곳이다.[중앙포토] 그곳에는 교회가 하나 있습니다. 그리스도교 최고의 성지로 불리는 성묘 교회입니다. 교회 이름처럼 이곳은 예수님이 십자가 처형을 당하고, 골고다의 동굴 무덤에 묻힌 곳입니다. 이슬람에 점령당한 이곳을 십자군 전쟁으로 ..

The Jaipur A and B teams, who competed in the Prince of Wales Cup tournament in Delhi, India, 27 February 1939. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty What is ‘the West’? While the West belonged to a European geography, its name meant something. Now it is a vague invocation, laden with fear by Faisal Devji + BIO AEON 20 September 2021 The Jaipur A and B teams, who competed in the Prince of Wales Cup tourname..

Civilization & Tradition by Allen C. Guelzo & James Hankins The New Criterion Features September 2021 On the fruits of Western culture. We can never cut ourselves off from antiquity unless we intend to revert to barbarism. The barbarian and the creature of exclusively modern civilization both live without history. —Jacob Burckhardt A civilization is a complex system of customs, practices, and be..

To what extent does a work of art belong to the people of the world? By Hannah Barbosa Cesnik The American Scholar June 14, 2021 Some of the Benin Bronzes, which the British took from western Africa in 1897, are displayed in the British Museum. (Adam Eastland/Alamy) Napoleon had two armies: one for conquering nations, the other for gathering their artifacts. At its height, the Grande Armée numbe..

We Have A Body Suzanne Koven The Yale Review On the first day of my first clinical rotation at the end of my second year of medical school I stood at the doorway of Mary’s room in the old Baltimore City Hospital clutching my clipboard and watching her breathe. Her eyes were closed, her face as white as the sheet tucked neatly across her chest. My careful reading of her chart told me that Mary wa..

Solzhenitsyn & the engine of history On Solzhenitsyn’s World War I novels. by Robert D. Kaplan The New Criterion, February 2021 issue It is a conceit of the modern world that history is governed by reason. Reason is like an axe to the living, growing tree of history, with its convoluted branches, each cell and molecule emerging as a matter of sheer contingency, one building upon the next—so that..