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Why Dickens Wrote 'A Christmas Carol' He wanted to highlight the income gap in Victorian Britain Hulton Archive / Getty Images By Robert McNamara Thought Co, September 12, 2019 Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets. "A Christmas Carol" by Cha..

[김지수의 인터스텔라] 이어령 마지막 인터뷰 "죽음을 기다리며 나는 탄생의 신비를 배웠네" 김지수 문화전문기자 조선일보 2019.10.19 "죽는 것은 돌아가는 것… 내가 받은 모든 게 선물이었다" "죽음 알기 위해 거꾸로… 유언같은 '탄생' 써내려가" "촛불 꺼지기 전 한번 환하게 타올라, 그것은 신의 은총" "나중 된 자 먼저 돼, 죽음 앞에서 당당했던 딸 좇아" "괴테처럼… 인간과 학문 전체를 보는 제너럴리스트로" 이어령 전 장관(87세). 생의 마지막 시간을 치열하게 쓰고 있다. "이번 만남이 아마 내 마지막 인터뷰가 될 거예요." 이어령 선생이 비 내리는 창밖을 응시하며 담담하게 말했다. 지난주에 보기로 했던 약속이 컨디션이 안 좋아 일주일 연기된 터. 안색이 좋아 보이신다고 하자 "피에로는 겉..

Last of the Whigs: Churchill as historian by Robert Messenger The New Criterion Features October 2006 “Very seldom have great statesmen and warriors also been great writers. One thinks of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, and even Napoleon, whose letters to Josephine during the first Italian campaign certainly have passion and splendor.” So began the presentation speech awarding the 1953 Nobel Pri..

What Is National Greatness? Ryan P. Hanley National Affairs Winter 2019 Lately it seems like everyone wants to make their nations great again. President Xi Jinping inspires China with fear of "national humiliation" and promise of "great revival." President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Europe of having "humiliated" Turkey and promises a "continuation" of the Ottoman Empire. President Vladimir Put..

朝鮮人徴用工にまつわる右派の誤解を正す 供与された3億ドルは「ひも付き」だった 杉田聡 帯広畜産大学名誉教授(哲学・思想史) 朝日新聞 2019年08月23日 炭鉱の地、筑豊に残る朝鮮人労働者の墓。墓石は石炭などの採掘で発生した捨石(ボタ石)=1992年、福岡県田川郡添田町 河野外相こそ無礼。日韓関係を考える最低限の条件 元徴用工への補償は日韓請求権協定があっても可能 強制的な労務動員――日本政府の異常な横やり 韓国人元徴用工がおこした裁判に関する韓国大法院判決(2018年10月)についてはいろいろ語られるが、「徴用工」について見られる誤解を正しておきたい。 「徴用」は、狭義には1944年の「国民徴用令」によって実施されたが、1939年の「募集」方式、1942年の「官斡旋」方式の場合も、強制的な「労務動員」が行われたことは、日本側の証言にも見ることができる(文京洙他『在日朝鮮人――歴史..

Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated Steven Nadler HUMANITIES, September/October 2013, Volume 34, Number 5 Photo caption Benedict Spinoza fotosImagenes.org Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been running since their father’s de..

RT Trolls Trump With Post-Election Job Offer The Moscow Times Sep. 23, 2020 At one point in the ad, the deepfake Trump admires the “great, great” Kremlin wall. The Kremlin-funded RT broadcaster leaned into its reputation as a U.S. election bogeyman with an ad offering President Donald Trump a job as “special host” if he loses the 2020 race. RT used deepfake technology to transport Trump 44 days ..

[Letter to Jo Song-gil] It is not an option but duty for North Korean diplomats to come to South Korea 14-01-201915-01-2019 thaeyongho My dear friend Jo Song-gil! Song-gil, I have no way of contacting you directly, so I am posting a long letter to you on my blog that you used to read. It has already been six years since we parted in Pyongyang. From the day your family was reported to have been m..

Sexual Choice, Sexual Act An Interview with Michel Foucault Michel Foucault By Michel Foucault Interviewer: James O'Higgins Salmagundi JOH: Let me begin by asking you to respond to John Boswell’s recent book on the history of Homosexuality from the beginning of the Christian era through the middle ages. As an historian yourself, do you find his methodology valid? To what extent do you think the ..

Heidegger, Again By George Steiner Salmagundi I. The crisis of spirit suffered by Germany in 1918 was more profound than that of 1945. The material destruction, the revelations of inhumanity which accompanied the collapse of the Third Reich numbed the German imagination. Immediate necessities for bare survival absorbed what the war had left of intellectual and psychological resources. The condit..