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Not nothing The death of a fly is utterly insignificant – or it’s a catastrophe. How much should we worry about what we squash? by Stephen Cave 25 July 2014 , Aeon Stephen Cave is an English philosopher and journalist. His latest book is Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilisation (2012). He lives in Berlin. This morning a tiny fly was, true to..

Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure Perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem We are now suffering the Hawaiianisation of everywhereby Andy Martin / August 1, 2014 / Prospect In Hawaii, people are expected to be too happy. Is Britain going the same way? © Hakilon While in Hawaii on a quest for the perfect wave, I once bumped into a psychiat..

The War Photo No One Would Publish When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture. by Torie Rose DeGhett Photos by Kenneth Jerecke/Contact Press Images August 8, 2014 The Atlantic Monthly The Iraqi soldier died attempting to pull himself up over the dashboard of..

The meanings of life Happiness is not the same as a sense of meaning. How do we go about finding a meaningful life, not just a happy one? by Roy F Baumeister Aeon A family party, Italy, 1983. Photo by Leonard Freed/Magnum Roy F Baumeister is professor of psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His latest book is Willpower (2010), co-authored with John Tierney. Pa..

Feature The Living and the Dead The Civil War divided Americans into two kinds of people. By David Skinner | HUMANITIES, September/October 2012 | Volume 33, Number 5 + Click on image to enlarge. A year after the 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, African Americans collect the bones of soldiers killed there. Library of Congress + Click on image to enlarge. Gettysburg National Cemetery,..

Feature Civil Rights and the Changing World How history was made and how it's being written. By Earl Lewis | HUMANITIES, January/February 2013 | Volume 34, Number 1.5 Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963. Photo by Gordon Parks, whose life and work have been the subject of numerous projects funded by NEH, including three grants to the New York Foundation for the Arts from 1994 to 1..

The lessons of war By Andreas Herberg-Rothe Jul 3, '14, Asia Times One hundred years ago, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events that resulted in the outbreak of World War I, and whose effects ultimately stretched even to the second world war. Are there any lessons here? Is there only one lesson to be learned - that you can learn nothing from h..

Princess Margaret A royal caught between a private world and public duty, her life, like Diana's, posed the question: what is a princess for? The Guardian, Monday 11 February 2002 02.38 GMT Princess Margaret on her 26th birthday. Photograph: EPA Princess Margaret, who has died in hospital after suffering a third stroke aged 71, was the most striking illustration of the capricio..

Bolshevik Romance and Reality By Victor Chernov VICTOR CHERNOV, Russian Social-Revolutionary writer; Minister of Agriculture in the Kerensky Government See more by this authorclose From our January 1927 Issue THE conflict within the Russian Communist Party has entered upon a new phase. For the first time all the groups of the Opposition have made an attempt to unite and to crea..

West Turns East at the End of History Fall 2009/Winter 2010, NPQ Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, Octavio Paz was Latin America’s great poet, essayist and critic whose most enduring work was The Labyrinth of Solitude. We would often meet in the late afternoon over scotch on ice at his apartment on Reforma in Mexico City, the warm afternoon rain pounding agains..