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I first discovered Mikhail Bulgakov in an anthology of Soviet science fiction...
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The Comic Morality of Mikhail Bulgakov
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I first discovered Mikhail Bulgakov in an anthology of Soviet science fiction. I was a 9th grade nebbish and budding Slavophile haunting the shelves of the Forest Hill Public Library. I wasn’t an SF fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I recognized a couple of the names in the table of contents and the title of t...
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2016-08-26T13:18:32
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In his Essays Moral, Literary, and Political, David Hume argued that it is not possible for a competitive political party to "support itself without a philosophical or speculative system of principles annexed to its political or practical one..."
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Totalitarianism and Political Religion
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In his Essays Moral, Literary, and Political, David Hume argued that it is not possible for a competitive political party to "support itself without a philosophical or speculative system of principles annexed to its political or practical one." What that seems to imply is that if a political party has "political or pra...
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2016-08-26T13:22:44
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Gabriel Hunt filched one of the stuffed grape leaves his wife, Caroline, had made for the dinner-dance tonight...
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Gabriel Hunt filched one of the stuffed grape leaves his wife, Caroline, had made for the dinner-dance tonight. He bit into it and discovered that it contained a rice-raisin filling. He threw it in the garbage and searched for one filled with lamb. Caroline came back into the kitchen singing an off-key version of one o...
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2016-08-26T13:24:00
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The dignity of the human person
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Neither Beast Nor God
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The term 'dignity' has been used with increasing frequency--but in very different ways--in the field of bioethics. The importance of dying with dignity is used as an argument in support of euthanasia and assisted suicide. But such an argument is likely to be met with the rejoinder that diminished capacities cannot depr...
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2016-08-26T13:22:08
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Anyone who has ever lived with a dog or a cat (or any other intelligent social animal) will attest to the occasional uncanny feeling that one's pet knows what one is thinking...
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Mindreading Animals
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Anyone who has ever lived with a dog or a cat (or any other intelligent social animal) will attest to the occasional uncanny feeling that one's pet knows what one is thinking. But is that really possible? Can animals really know or even grasp the idea of what is going on in another's mind? And even if they can, how wou...
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2016-08-26T13:23:18
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Somewhere near the middle of "Why Jane Austen?",a book that combines literary and cultural criticism with recollections of teaching and travel and anecdotes about friends, neighbors, and strangers, I describe a gathering of Jane Austen fans I attended some years ago in England...
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Rachel M. Brownstein
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Somewhere near the middle of Why Jane Austen?, a book that combines literary and cultural criticism with recollections of teaching and travel and anecdotes about friends, neighbors, and strangers, I describe a gathering of Jane Austen fans I attended some years ago in England. Here's the first sentence of the passage: ...
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2016-08-26T13:19:15
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Malcolm Forbes on Katherine Anne Porter
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The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter's fictional output was not huge - only one novel and three volumes of short stories - but she made sure that every word counted. Quality reigns supreme over quantity. Stories were written and rewritten. Some were left incubating for years before she could look at them again with a fresh eye. All o...
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The first time I read a short story by Etgar Keret, I was working at Symphony Space, a performing arts center in New York....
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An Interview with Etgar Keret
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The first time I read a short story by Etgar Keret, I was working at Symphony Space, a performing arts center in New York. It was summertime and my job consisted of finding short stories for readings we held during the year. Etgar Keret would be giving a reading in a few months, and I was photocopying his short stories...
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Kazakhstan's capital Astana is renowned for its futuristic and eclectic (or ostentatious and jumbled, depending on one's aesthetic) architecture. It also has a more dubious distinction: it's the second coldest capital city in the world. Other cities in northern Kazakhstan are just as chilly. With temperatures often bel...
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Winter Postcards from the Kazakh steppe
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Kazakhstan's capital Astana is renowned for its futuristic and eclectic (or ostentatious and jumbled, depending on one's aesthetic) architecture. It also has a more dubious distinction: it's the second coldest capital city in the world. Other cities in northern Kazakhstan are just as chilly. With temperatures often bel...
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Ancient Chinese wisdom says it best: poetry is like being alive twice. Poetry gave me a second chance. In a sense, poetry saved my life...
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Life, Poetry, Wisdom
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When my wife Mary and I got married in 1961, the future looked golden. She gave up a promising career as a fashion illustrator to raise a family. I pursued a law career that culminated in my appointment to the bench in 1983. Our children were happy, healthy and bright. We enjoyed many of the "good things" in life. In 1...
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2016-08-01T00:00:00
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Coaching female empowerment to the field in the aftermath of Joseph Kony
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Female Empowerment in Uganda
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It would be disingenuous to imply I wasn't prepared for the level of penury greeting me in Pader Town, Uganda-former slaughter zone for Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army. I fully expected the half naked, filthy little children; the intermittent availability of power and water; the constant saturation of sweat,...
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2016-08-26T13:20:46
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The similarities between the rise of the American state and power and the upsurge of Roman Republic.
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Is America the New Rome?
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*** IS AMERICA THE NEW ROME? *** By T.S.Tsonchev *** *** There are astonishing similarities between the rise of the American state and power and the upsurge of Roman Republic. These likenesses are not due to the specific character of both states, rather there is a common pattern in the development of every powerful sta...
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2016-08-01T00:00:00
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2016-08-26T13:16:08
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Brad S. Gregory on his book 'The Unintended Reformation'
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How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society is an ambitious experiment in historical explanation that is as much about the present as the past. It analyzes the historical formation of some of the dominant beliefs, ideas, assumptions, practices, and institutions of the contemporary Western...
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2016-08-01T00:00:00
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What are the causes for the wealth and poverty of states? An essay on Why Nations Fail.
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Economic Growth: Why Nations Fail
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If you start in the city center of Nogales Santa Cruz and walk south for a while, at some point you see houses become much more run down, streets turn decrepit. You have crossed the Mexican border into Nogales, Sonora. Though the two cities are made of the same cloth and were once united, now there are sharp difference...
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2016-08-01T00:00:00
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In 1696, Sir Isaac Newton left Cambridge for London, putting his scientific and alchemical pursuits temporarily on hold to assume the position of Warden of the Royal Mint. His main responsibility was to investigate and prosecute crimes against the English currency...
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Casualties of Credit
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In 1696, Sir Isaac Newton left Cambridge for London, putting his scientific and alchemical pursuits temporarily on hold to assume the position of Warden of the Royal Mint. His main responsibility was to investigate and prosecute crimes against the English currency. He was relentless in his pursuit of forgers and counte...
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2016-08-01T00:00:00
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This year Russia experienced the return of the Kremlin veteran, Vladimir Putin, to the presidential seat. Although he is associated with political reaction and is concerned by the prospect of 'colour revolutions' at home, Russia is desperately running out of friends on the international stage...Belarus, Iran, the count...
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Moscow Supports Kim Jong-un
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Russia claims it is willing to link divided Korea with energy pipelines and electricity grids. But its economic relations with North Korea indicate a return to the Cold War politics of the past. In 1948 Stalin sponsored the creation of the DPRK in the Northern half of the Korean peninsula. The following year, Prime Min...
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In the spring of 1972, I headed from the States to Europe with that wave of young North Americans for whom an international adventure was an essential experience in the new era of personal growth...
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The Stillness of the Acropolis
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In the spring of 1972, I headed from the States to Europe with that wave of young North Americans for whom an international adventure was an essential experience in the new era of personal growth. I was 30, and had turned my assets into cash, including a retirement fund. Life is not short when you’re young, and old age...
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I'd always thought I'd be a writer some day...
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Beverly Akerman on The Meaning Of Children and the writing life
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I'd always thought I'd be a writer some day. My first publication was a poem that won an honourable mention when I was nine and a half years old, something I wrote in The Rampike last year, in the creative nonfiction piece "Aversion Conditioning, or Why I am Somewhat Conflicted About Poetry." Beverly Akerman But I gues...
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Many people, these days, hold the opinion that religion and science conflict; in some deep way they are opposed to each other..
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Does Science Contradict Religion?
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Many people, these days, hold the opinion that religion and science conflict; in some deep way they are opposed to each other. Some think the occurrence of miracles, endorsed by many religions, is incompatible with science; some think there is such a thing as a scientific world-view, and it excludes God as well as anyt...
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Revelation or the Apocalypse of John is one of the most provocative texts in the Bible. It has inspired great art and music, even as it has fueled speculation about the imminent end of the world. My study of Revelation asks how people have construed its meaning in such different ways, and it offers a way of reading it ...
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Revelation or the Apocalypse of John is one of the most provocative texts in the Bible. It has inspired great art and music, even as it has fueled speculation about the imminent end of the world. My study of Revelation asks how people have construed its meaning in such different ways, and it offers a way of reading it ...
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Travel and Habit in Merleau-Ponty and Proust
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Merleau-Ponty and Proust: Travel and Habit
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The phenomenological project, according to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, is to study (1), as far as is possible given the nature of human consciousness, the experience of experience. While previous thinkers have promised to do the same thing, they miss the mark, according to Merleau-Ponty, because they forget to account for t...
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‘Poetry makes nothing happen,' said the poet W. H. Auden. How wrong he was...
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On Art and War and Terror
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'Poetry makes nothing happen,' said the poet W. H. Auden. How wrong he was. My essays, On Art and War and Terror, now available in paperback, are dedicated to the proposition that art matters, ethically and politically, emotionally and intellectually - that poetry makes something happen after all. Not only does it make...
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Neil Fligstein on the future of European political integration.
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The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe
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The current European Union (hereafter, EU) contains 27 countries that comprise most of Europe. The EU was created by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. That Treaty created the permanent Brussels institutions which include the Council of Ministers (the representatives of each government), the Commission (the bureaucracy in cha...
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In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte, at the heights of his power, set out for the most adventurous, and ultimately fatal, military campaign. Napoleon’s Grand Army of over 500,000 men, the largest force ever mobilized to that date, was led to the lands of Russia. Historians have long investigated the misjudgements of this campai...
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The ‘emotional amoral egoism’ of states
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Introduction In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte, at the heights of his power, set out for the most adventurous, and ultimately fatal, military campaign. Napoleon’s Grand Army of over 500,000 men, the largest force ever mobilized to that date, was led to the lands of Russia. Historians have long investigated the misjudgements o...
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Mark Pagel on the origins of the human social mind, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus on the creation of inequality, Melvyn L. Fein on human hierarchies, Michael Tomasello on cooperation, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis on human reciprocity and its evolution, Marco Iacoboni on the science of how we connect with others, S...
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Best books of 2012 in Social Sciences
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| BEST OF 2012 | *** SOCIAL & SCIENCE *** WIRED FOR CULTURE ORIGINS OF THE HUMAN SOCIAL MIND By Mark Pagel What makes us human? It is a question that invades nearly every aspect of our lives, our psychology and our behavior. Who are we, and why are we the way we are, so utterly different from other animals? The answers...
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Many political scientists, economists and other social scientists, as well as your average layperson, have tended to assume that human beings are rational. Yet, scholars of cognitive psychology have demonstrated in experiments that rationality is sometimes elusive; that our decisions are impacted by many mental shortcu...
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Fateful Decisions and Foreign Policy
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Many political scientists, economists and other social scientists, as well as your average layperson, have tended to assume that human beings are rational. Yet, scholars of cognitive psychology have demonstrated in experiments that rationality is sometimes elusive; that our decisions are impacted by many mental shortcu...
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When the Soviet Union broke up 20 years ago, its national airline Aeroflot suffered the same fate. From Baku to Bishkek, Tallinn to Tashkent, the governments of cash-strapped new republics seized the aircraft sitting on the tarmac, repainted them in the new national colors and hoped they could round up enough spare par...
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Central Asia Frequent Flyer
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When the Soviet Union broke up 20 years ago, its national airline Aeroflot suffered the same fate. From Baku to Bishkek, Tallinn to Tashkent, the governments of cash-strapped new republics seized the aircraft sitting on the tarmac, repainted them in the new national colors and hoped they could round up enough spare par...
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Tea bowls are alive! Were I to assert this proposition in causal conversation with you, you might well think that I had been imbibing something a wee bit stronger than tea...
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Japan Tea Bowls: Meaning and Contemplation
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Tea bowls are alive! Were I to assert this proposition in causal conversation with you, you might well think that I had been imbibing something a wee bit stronger than tea. But I have not been indulging or overindulging. Mind you, I am not a teetotaler. But I consume alcoholic beverages rather infrequently and hardly e...
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When Adam Smith promoted a market economy in the mid 18th century it was in the context of a moral theory that depended upon personal interaction. In those days the interests of small business entrepreneurs were best served by quality products and service for their customers who rewarded them with repeat business. In m...
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Moral Behavior, Trust, and Markets
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When Adam Smith promoted a market economy in the mid 18th century it was in the context of a moral theory that depended upon personal interaction. In those days the interests of small business entrepreneurs were best served by quality products and service for their customers who rewarded them with repeat business. In m...
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A review of Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism and Plenitude: The Economics of True Wealth
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Troubled Times: Responses from the Ecological Left
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Since the rumbling protests of the Occupy movement last fall, some commentators have argued that while Americans have reason to be outraged, we here up north don't really have that much to complain about. Our bankers have pretty much followed the rules, and our economy has fared better than most others in withstanding ...
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On April 8, 2016 the Vatican issued the English translation of Amoris Laetitia, the Joy of Love, written by Pope Francis. The document consists of 325 paragraphs arranged in eight chapters and takes the form of an apostolic exhortation. An apostolic exhortation is different from an encyclical in that it does not define...
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Pope Francis and the Joy of Love, A Commentary
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On April 8, 2016 the Vatican issued the English translation of Amoris Laetitia, the Joy of Love, written by Pope Francis. The document consists of 325 paragraphs arranged in eight chapters and takes the form of an apostolic exhortation. An apostolic exhortation is different from an encyclical in that it does not define...
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Mark Twain once quipped that the 'trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.' Twain wasn’t talking about energy, which was hardly controversial in his era, but his timeless quote certainly resonates today...
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Myths of the Oil Boom
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Mark Twain once quipped that the “trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.” Twain wasn’t talking about energy, which was hardly controversial in his era, but his timeless quote certainly resonates today. When I first decided to write this book, I jotted...
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The news stories that flooded front pages in the wake of Hurricane Irene late last month focused mostly on surging rivers, torn-up homes, downed trees, and the fate of New York City...
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Covered Bridges in the Quebec countryside
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The news stories that flooded front pages in the wake of Hurricane Irene late last month focused mostly on surging rivers, torn-up homes, downed trees, and the fate of New York City. But one story in particular caught my attention: the state of Vermont lost several of its historic covered bridges, those pleasant remind...
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In 1960, Dwight Macdonald published 'Masscult and Midcult' in the Partisan Review. Here Macdonald introduced his distinction between what he called masscult—or what is more commonly labeled 'lowbrow'—and midcult, which we generally refer to as 'middlebrow.' He identified the characteristics of both forms of culture in ...
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Dwight Macdonald's Masscult and Midcult in the Age of Waste
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In 1960, Dwight Macdonald published "Masscult and Midcult" in the Partisan Review. Here Macdonald introduced his distinction between what he called masscult—or what is more commonly labeled "lowbrow"—and midcult, which we generally refer to as "middlebrow." He identified the characteristics of both forms of culture in ...
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Britain, and the EU generally, is in the throes of a crisis of confidence in its food supply. The largely unregulated and highly competitive process of producing what ends up on our plates has been offering evidence of poor quality, dishonest labelling, and probably criminal fraud...
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The Green Economy
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Britain, and the EU generally, is in the throes of a crisis of confidence in its food supply. The largely unregulated and highly competitive process of producing what ends up on our plates has been offering evidence of poor quality, dishonest labelling, and probably criminal fraud. Consumers are pulling ready-meals out...
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For centuries, the Russian traveler, crossing the border, felt an inexplicable lightness, as if an unseen burden had been lifted from his shoulders...
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The Character of Russia
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For centuries, the Russian traveler, crossing the border, felt an inexplicable lightness, as if an unseen burden had been lifted from his shoulders. In 1839, the Marquis de Custine recorded the comments of a German innkeeper in Travemunde who remarked that when Russians arrived on their way to Europe, they had a "gay, ...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti is universally recognized to be among the greatest artists of all time...
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by William E. Wallace
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Michelangelo Buonarroti is universally recognized to be among the greatest artists of all time. This vividly written, richly documented, and accessible biography offers a substantially new portrait of the famous Renaissance artist: Michelangelo was not only a great sculptor, painter, architect and poet, but also a succ...
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Essay on the nature of capitalism and its relation to social and economic crises.
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Capitalism and Crisis
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We are in the midst of a crisis of capitalism and commentators compete to provide accounts of its origins in misguided policies or corporate malpractices, as though it is in some way a deviation from the normal functioning of capitalist economies. Recurrent crises are, however, one of the characteristic features of cap...
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The Arab Awakening – the chain of rebellions and revolutions that have rocked the Arab world since last December – has riveted the attention of people the world over...
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The Clash of Ideas in World Politics
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The Arab Awakening - the chain of rebellions and revolutions that have rocked the Arab world since last December - has riveted the attention of people the world over. In the West and elsewhere, we sense that what is happening in and across Arab countries is somehow about us, not just about them. But how exactly can tha...
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In September of 2012, the eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel published a calm and dispassionate book challenging the reigning scientific orthodoxy of the day. In his book Mind and Cosmos, Nagel argues that the current materialist, neo-Darwinian explanatory model cannot account for the existence of consciousness, reason a...
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Darwin and Dogma: On Leiter and Weisberg’s Review of Mind and Cosmos
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In September of 2012, the eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel published a calm and dispassionate book challenging the reigning scientific orthodoxy of the day. In his book Mind and Cosmos, Nagel argues that the current materialist, neo-Darwinian explanatory model cannot account for the existence of consciousness, reason a...
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Interview with Keith Miller
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Keith Miller's "Welcome to Pine Hill"
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Last Thursday at Slamdance's closing party atop Main Street in Park City, I choked down chocolate chip cayenne cookies next to Keith Miller, an NYU art professor who won the Grand Jury prize for a narrative feature. "So what do you think of your big win?" I wanted to know. "It's nice," he said with a glib Brooklyn shru...
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Politics may be boring like hell to the outsiders, but not to those at the trough. Look again at the legislative floor, prompts Peter Swirski in 'American Utopia and Social Engineering,' his recent book on American culture and American politics. Taiwanese parliamentary debates routinely end in bloody fistfights. South ...
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American Political Fictions
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The above ironic description is probably how most of us see politics. But—hang on a minute. Politics may be boring like hell to the outsiders, but not to those at the trough. Look again at the legislative floor, prompts Peter Swirski in American Utopia and Social Engineering, his recent book on American culture and Ame...
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Why and when the economists are wrong?
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Economic History: How Economists are Abusing the Past
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In his presidential address to the American Historical Association earlier this year, Anthony Grafton has warned the profession that history is "under attack". The humanities have never been held in such low regard by public opinion as at the present time. In an era dominated by the quest for profit and consumer satisf...
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That a photographer's guile can make for a heady and instructive aesthetic experience is proved by the remarkable work of Jakub Dolejs. His ongoing practice of deception now encompasses some of the formal language of late Modernism, and his palette is almost hallucinatory in its clarity...
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Art Mûr Gallery
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That a photographer's guile can make for a heady and instructive aesthetic experience is proved by the remarkable work of Jakub Dolejs. His ongoing practice of deception now encompasses some of the formal language of late Modernism, and his palette is almost hallucinatory in its clarity. Dolejs carries forwards his pro...
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Ceasing to be human is a fugitive event; it can't be captured by a single narrative or conceptual context. Perhaps the proper way to pursue the matter is by way of historical inquiries into the forms and occasions of its appearance...
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On Being Singular
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Ceasing to be human is a fugitive event; it can't be captured by a single narrative or conceptual context. Perhaps the proper way to pursue the matter is by way of historical inquiries into the forms and occasions of its appearance. The ancients, for example, imagined themselves as porous subjects exposed to divine or ...
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For anyone interested in economics, but not familiar with the ideological battles that have been shaping the economic policy in the last hundred years, Nicolas Wapshott's recent book "Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics" can be a useful introduction to the subject. Published three years after the near...
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Two Competing Economic Views
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For anyone interested in economics, but not familiar with the ideological battles that have been shaping economic policy in the last hundred years, Nicolas Wapshott's recent book "Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics" can be a useful introduction to the subject. Published three years after the near col...
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An Essay on What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion.
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What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
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Li Ch'ing-Chao was one of the greatest poets of China. Writing nine hundred years ago, she reflected once on the coming of spring. Following both convention and an aesthetic interest most of us would share, she spoke of the plum blossoms, just opened into the warming air. But she immediately noticed that something was ...
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Alexis de Tocqueville is often quoted as a sort of Olympian oracle, lofty and impersonal...
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Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville is often quoted as a sort of Olympian oracle, lofty and impersonal. Hoping to influence the turbulent political scene of his day, he strove for a dispassionate, even-tempered style, which can sound somewhat aridly abstract when translated too literally into English. But in fact the great De la dém...
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The three-decade old Chinese economic 'miracle' apparently has a dark side, one which seems to contradict current economic orthodoxy which posits that rising corruption depresses growth rates and slows development...
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Corruption and Economic Growth in China
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Since the advent of market-building reforms in the late 1970s, the Chinese economy has grown at an astounding rate. As of 2010, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita had increased 13-fold, double the net gain in South Korea which trailed next behind China and nearly ten times the gain in the United States and Japan d...
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Norman, my soon to be ex-husband, and I were sitting at opposite ends of the sofa like two prize fighters before a match...
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Dividing day at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat
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Norman, my soon to be ex-husband, and I were sitting at opposite ends of the sofa like two prize fighters before a match. Norman pressed his body into the arm rest to create more space between us. Our psychiatrist, Dr. David Viscott, relaxed into the black leather of his authentic Eames chair opposite us. Resting his f...
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I made my Jarry Park debut at night, on a YMCA day-camp sponsored outing. The stadium felt alive, charged and vivid. The brilliant light towers, whose bulbs I tried to count, brought the grass, the warning track, and the white button-like bases into sharp relief. Night meant sophistication and excitement, an invitation...
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A Jarry Park Education
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I made my Jarry Park debut at night, on a YMCA day-camp sponsored outing. The stadium felt alive, charged and vivid. The brilliant light towers, whose bulbs I tried to count, brought the grass, the warning track, and the white button-like bases into sharp relief. Night meant sophistication and excitement, an invitation...
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André Gagné: "The Gospel of Thomas is not a “heretical” writing and should not be placed under the modern category of Gnosticism. Like the traditional New Testament writings, Thomas is also concerned with the reception and transmission of the words and teachings of Jesus..."
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The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins
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"These are the hidden sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down. He said: Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings shall not experience death." *** This quote belongs to one of the most important and fascinating texts ever unearthed: The Gospel of Thomas (Gos. Thom.). This ...
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It was an album that spawned theses in paper churning departments. It infuriated, puzzled and confused...
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Remembering Paul Simon’s Graceland
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It was an album that spawned theses in paper churning departments. It infuriated, puzzled and confused. Twenty five years after its release, Paul Simon's Graceland retains its cultural heat, its bubbling, humming power. For Simon, regimes were less important than cultural collaboration. If art serves, as a function, to...
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A few years ago I flew back to Canada after many years in Europe. At Vancouver customs I noticed that the crowds were almost entirely Asian, and they all held out passports just like mine: dark blue, with elegant gold lettering that spelled out CANADA...
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Privatising Passports
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A few years ago I flew back to Canada after many years in Europe. At Vancouver customs I noticed that the crowds were almost entirely Asian, and they all held out passports just like mine: dark blue, with elegant gold lettering that spelled out CANADA. I had felt at home in Europe, with its weather, its geography, its ...
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In U.S. presidential politics the “threat” of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran has emerged as a potent political issue comparable to Saddam Hussein's Iraq and “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD ) in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003...
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Republican Presidential Candidates’ Iranimania
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In U.S. presidential politics the "threat" of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran has emerged as a potent political issue comparable to Saddam Hussein's Iraq and "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD ) in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Republican presidential candidates have jumped all over the issue ...
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‘The aim of philosophy,' the great American philosopher Wilfred Sellars once wrote, ‘is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.'...
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Uriah Kriegel
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"The aim of philosophy," the great American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars once wrote, "is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." In other words, the goal of philosophy is to produce a (comprehensive) list of all entities conjoined wit...
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The lessons learned from the British privatization. David Parker on his Official History of Privatization
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Successful Privatization: Lessons from Britain
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State-owned industries are often inefficient, costly and unresponsive to consumer demands. They are weighed down by political intervention, have unclear and inconsistent goals to guide good management, and are subject to capture by special interest groups, such as particular suppliers and the trade unions. Bluntly, too...
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Many affairs of this life are fueled by money but one doesn't think about it unless the gas runs out...
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Sickness and Health
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1. Many affairs of this life are fueled by money but one doesn't think about it unless the gas runs out. So, all beginnings being to some degree arbitrary, I will begin with the money made by the Heller Machine Tool Manufacturing Company of Zittau. The worthy founder and sole proprietor of this firm died an early death...
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Ali Rahnema on his new book "Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad". Rhnema, who is a professor of economics and director of the master of arts program in Middle East and Islamic Studies at the American University of Paris, intrudices the reader to the character, sources and history ...
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Iranian Politics: Superstition as Ideology
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This is a two part book. The first part tells the story of a style of statesmanship and a mode of political expression and conduct anchored in a mystical and esoteric religious discourse. To familiarize the readers with the particulars of political superstition as a discourse, the words and acts of three Iranian rulers...
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Why should there be yet another book in the philosophy of religion, and why should I in particular write one? Rationality and Religious Commitment has grown from a great deal of my work on both these topics...
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Rationality and Religious Commitment
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Why should there be yet another book in the philosophy of religion, and why should I in particular write one? Rationality and Religious Commitment has grown from a great deal of my work on both these topics. The Architecture of Reason (Oxford, 2001) proposes a comprehensive account of practical and theoretical rational...
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I'm lonely but I dislike the company of other people and this puts me in a Hellbox...
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James Robison
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I'm lonely but I dislike the company of other people and this puts me in a hellbox. MoMA just now has the de Kooning show and a reviewer somewhere was rehearsing this man's method of work, which was draw, paint over drawing, draw on painting, scrape off some paint-I know I know. You mess around and hit suddenly at an a...
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Leonard Cohen once remarked: 'the kind of thing I like is that you write a song, and it slips into the world, and they forget who wrote it. And it moves and it changes, and you hear it again 300 years later, some women washing their clothes in a stream, and one of them is humming this tune.' While none of his songs mig...
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Leonard Cohen Biography
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Leonard Cohen once remarked: "the kind of thing I like is that you write a song, and it slips into the world, and they forget who wrote it. And it moves and it changes, and you hear it again 300 years later, some women washing their clothes in a stream, and one of them is humming this tune." While none of his songs mig...
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On a hot summer day in 1967, the blind and infirm Jorge Luis Borges challenged his healthier and much younger protégé, Italo Calvino...
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Borges and Calvino Race for Blood Sausage
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On a hot summer day in 1967, the blind and infirm Jorge Luis Borges challenged his healthier and much younger protégé, Italo Calvino, to a one hundred meter foot race on the main thoroughfare in Buenos Aires, Calle 9 de Julio. The wager was for five kilos of the city's finest blood sausage. Borges asked only that Calvi...
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My aim is to convince you of a few things, mostly about time. But, more than that, I want to ease your suffering...
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There is No Future Tree
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My aim is to convince you of a few things, mostly about time. But, more than that, I want to ease your suffering. The future does not exist. Not: it hasn’t arrived yet. Rather: there is no such thing, no point in time beyond this one, beyond the present. Also, time moves in only one direction: forward. In moving forwar...
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The encounter with death has been a central theme in Western philosophy in general and in Existential philosophy in particular. The other boundary of human existence, birth, has been treated at best as a marginal phenomenon; at worst, completely ignored. Reflecting on a little known short story by Flannery O’Connor, A ...
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An Existential Encounter
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“Meditation on chance which led to the meeting of my father and mother is more salutary than meditation on death.” (Simone Weil)(1) Whenever I asked my students “Why would you have children?” I was usually met with a stunned silence. When pushed further, they proffer such lame responses as: “to carry on my name” or “it...
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Review of Moshe Arens's 'Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto'
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What Happened in Warsaw
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My first evening in Jerusalem, Reuven took me to Ben Yehuda, an open air pedestrian mall, a midrachov. Tables out on the cobblestones, buskers. A trendy spot to sit out with a latte and observe the passing crowd. It was named after Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who in the late 19th century revived Hebrew as a modern spoken langu...
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I have never seen a painting as tender and vibrant as Gustav Klimt's oil on canvas painting, “The Kiss.” To me, “The Kiss,” circa 1907-08, enacts a perfect transaction between two people with hearts so full of love that the world around them bursts in flamboyant, colorful life...
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Gustav Klimt: The Universe in a Kiss
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I have never seen a painting as tender and vibrant as Gustav Klimt's oil on canvas painting, "The Kiss." To me, "The Kiss," circa 1907-08, enacts a perfect transaction between two people with hearts so full of love that the world around them bursts in flamboyant, colorful life. This representative oneness, passion for ...
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Although revolutionary forces succeeded in capturing the main urban centers of Libya and killing Muammar Gaddafi, the ultimate outcome of the civil war is far from certain. Is conflict really at an end?
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Libya: The Future of a Revolution
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Although revolutionary forces succeeded in capturing the main urban centers of Libya and killing Muammar Gaddafi, the ultimate outcome of the civil war is far from certain. Is conflict really at an end? Can the country reunify? Will the factions allied in the effort to oust the Gaddafi regime turn against each other? C...
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David Shields’ 2010 (anti)novel Reality Hunger is a kind of 205-page manifesto composed of 618 brief numbered sections, the longest no more than a few pages, though most are limited to a few sentences. These passages are, by and large, uncited quotations from other authors...
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The Advent of Virtual Realism
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An Elegiac Introduction David Shields’ 2010 (anti)novel Reality Hunger is a kind of 205-page manifesto composed of 618 brief numbered sections, the longest no more than a few pages, though most are limited to a few sentences. These passages are, by and large, uncited quotations from other authors (an appendix at the en...
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Christopher Braider: "The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes" challenges the universal presumption that the decisive turning point in early modern Western literary and intellectual culture was what Richard Rorty has called the dualist ‘invention of the mind.' ...
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Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
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My book challenges the universal presumption that the decisive turning point in early modern Western literary and intellectual culture was what Richard Rorty has called the dualist 'invention of the mind.' It has largely been taken for granted that the 17th century witnesses the emergence of an entirely new historical ...
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Many who have spent some length of time in Rwanda will know that the place has a certain feel to it. Perhaps they can’t quite put their finger on it, and some might even ignore it – but one common observation persists: there is something sinister in the air. It might come from knowing that the genocide of 800,000 peopl...
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Rwanda Twenty Years After the Genocide
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Many who have spent some length of time in Rwanda will know that the place has a certain feel to it. Perhaps they can’t quite put their finger on it, and some might even ignore it – but one common observation persists: there is something sinister in the air. It might come from knowing that the genocide of 800,000 peopl...
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One of my most enduring childhood memories is when my father brought home a battery-operated car dashboard panel designed to simulate the experience of driving...
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The Car Culture in America
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One of my most enduring childhood memories is when my father brought home a battery-operated car dashboard panel designed to simulate the experience of driving. It was an intricate and obviously expensive toy that rested on any tabletop and included a steering wheel with gear-changing levers, a plastic windshield with ...
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Who invented the idea of market freedom?
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The Invention of Market Freedom
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Through most of human history the word "freedom" has been used to distinguish the members of a social and political elite from those classes of people - women, slaves, serfs, menial laborers, and foreigners - who do not enjoy their privileges or share their ethos. Freedom today, in colloquial terms, means doing what yo...
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Gabrielle Tousignant: "Fashion is very close to sculpture..."
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Kollontai Fashion Collection
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TMR: How and why did you choose the profession of fashion designer? As far as I remember I have always played with fabrics and garments. As a child, I used my Grandmother's sewing machine a lot, just for fun. I later started building my own clothes and I developed a taste for that way of expressing my personality. TMR:...
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One of the central projects of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been the attempt to reconcile our self-image as human beings with the picture of the world emerging from the natural sciences...
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Freedom and the Laws of Nature
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One of the central projects of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been the attempt to reconcile our self-image as human beings with the picture of the world emerging from the natural sciences. We understand ourselves as beings with intrinsic moral worth who make free, conscious choices. And we assume that the...
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Syria remains poorly understood, despite the pivotal role it plays in the contemporary Middle East...
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Demystifying Syria
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Syria remains poorly understood, despite the pivotal role it plays in the contemporary Middle East. The country's domestic and foreign policies are most often attributed to the proclivities of a single individual-the president of the republic; persistent problems in agriculture, industry and trade tend to be blamed on ...
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Self-preservation is embodied in our brain's circuitry: we seek food when hungry, warmth when cold, and sex when lusty...
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Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells us about Morality
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Self-preservation is embodied in our brain's circuitry: we seek food when hungry, warmth when cold, and sex when lusty. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, circuitry for regulating one's own survival and well-being was modified. For sociality, the important result was that the ambit of me extends to include others...
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The Islamic Republic of Iran presents a wide range of challenges in a region that is already plagued by insecurity and conflict...
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Iran's Challenge in a time of Arab turmoil
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*** IRAN'S CONTINUING CHALLENGE IN A TIME OF ARAB TURMOIL *** By Adam C. Seitz and Anthony H. Cordesman *** The Montréal Review, May 2011 *** *** The Islamic Republic of Iran presents a wide range of challenges in a region that is already plagued by insecurity and conflict. As long standing regimes are threatened by th...
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There is a growing risk that China's economic growth could slow substantially in the medium term.  This would not be the so-called hard landing, which implies a near term sharp slowdown followed by a v-shaped recovery, but rather a prolonged period of slow growth perhaps something around 4 percent, the onset of which m...
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The Chinese Growth Model before and after the Financial Crisis
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It has been five years since China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, characterized China's growth as unsteady, imbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable. In the intervening years Premier Wen has outlined repeatedly the economic reforms that he regards as critical to transitioning from a model relying primarily on exports and i...
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Edward Luttwak: I don't know anyone willing to do anything about Syria in the sense of knocking off Assad, which we could do in one day of air strikes...
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Syria's Thirty Years War
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THE situation in Syria seems to have worsened over the past several months. Bashar al-Assad's resolve has if anything hardened. The death toll rises, the numbers of refugees fleeing the conflict grows. To get some insight into the Syrian future I spoke with Faisal Alazem of the Canadian Syrian Council. DL: A few months...
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I've been reading Virginia Woolf since high school, and with more focus and intensity in the past five years. It was when I read The Waves for the first time, while living in Thailand and studying Buddhism, that I had an epiphany: not only was I a Buddhist, but Virginia Woolf was too!
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Virginia Woolf, Buddhism, and Lee's Biography of the Artist
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I've been reading Virginia Woolf since high school, and with more focus and intensity in the past five years. It was when I read The Waves for the first time, while living in Thailand and studying Buddhism, that I had an epiphany: not only was I a Buddhist, but Virginia Woolf was too! It was all over The Waves, holding...
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50 years after the Quiet Revolution. Photo Essays by Mark Lavorato
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The Church in Montreal Today
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While church communities in Montreal were once extremely homogeneous, they now consist of every imaginable ethnicity and socio-economic background. | 1 of 10 | NEXT PAGE *** What Montreal looked like in the recent past seems unimaginable today. In 1960, French-origin workers earned 52% less than British-origin workers....
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Red Road is a movie which uses visuality to create the sensation of touch and most of the time leads the viewer to associate the visual material with sensations of the “haptic”...
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Red Road as an Experience of the Sense of Cinema
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Red Road is a movie which uses visuality to create the sensation of touch and most of the time leads the viewer to associate the visual material with sensations of the "haptic". In general the movie can be associated with feelings of security and vulnerability; the sensations of coming out of a narrow and safe space an...
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Photos
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Street Photography by Mark Lavorato
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| 1 of 10 | NEXT PAGE *** What many people don't know is that street photography was the precursor to photojournalism. First came the art, then its utility. In the 1920's, with the advent of camera technology that was both more compact than it had ever been before, and finally fast enough to capture subjects who were i...
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The Theological-Political Treatise was regarded by Spinoza's contemporaries as the most dangerous book ever published...
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Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise and the Birth of Secularism
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Writing in May, 1670, the German theologian Jacob Thomasius fulminated against a recent, anonymously published book. It is, he claimed, "a godless document" that should be immediately banned in all countries lest its dangerous message disseminate among the masses. His Dutch colleague, Regnier Mansveld, a professor at t...
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In recent years 'Weimar-talk' has been an important part of American political pundits’ toolkit. Soon after September 11 it was common to regard George W. Bush’s 'War on Terror' as a modern version of Article 48, the constitutional provision authorizing temporary suspension of democratic liberties in case things got to...
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How to Speak Weimar
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In recent years “Weimar-talk” has been an important part of American political pundits’ toolkit. Soon after 9/11 it was common to regard George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” as a modern version of Article 48, the constitutional provision authorizing temporary suspension of democratic liberties in case things got too messy ...
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The critics of capitalism are wrong. As long as people value freedom and growth, some form of capitalism will remain the principal way to organize economies. Political choice will force deviations from time to time, but a free public will find its way back. Capitalism will remain our future. And because we are not perf...
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The Advantages of Capitalism
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It was with a mixture of surprise and disbelief in the fall of 2008 that I read journalists' commentaries on the end of capitalism. Many welcomed the expansion of regulation and government intervention and the weakening of market competition as a regulator. Several journalists asked me to comment on the alleged end of ...
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Georg Sorensen on the Liberal World Order
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A Liberal World Order in Crisis
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My book is about the problematic liberal world order that has evolved in place of the idealistic vision of "the end of history". There were high hopes for a universal liberal world order when the Cold War ended around 1990. The breakdown of the Soviet Union meant that liberal ideas about democracy and market economy no...
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Ever since Goldman Sach's coined the term BRICS to describe the rising economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China, it has been clear that the twenty-first century will see a radical redistribution of power from the West to the rest of the world, who are not only catching up in terms of development, but may well ...
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The Canadian Pivot to China?
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Ever since Goldman Sach's coined the term BRICS to describe the rising economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China, it has been clear that the twenty-first century will see a radical redistribution of power from the West to the rest of the world, who are not only catching up in terms of development, but may well ...
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Suggesting that natural science is unnatural and that religion, which traffics in the supernatural, is natural seems to turn things upside down. Sorting out these paradoxes, though, will offer insight about both enterprises...
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Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not
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Suggesting that natural science is unnatural and that religion, which traffics in the supernatural, is natural seems to turn things upside down. Sorting out these paradoxes, though, will offer insight about both enterprises. The "naturalness" of cognition is the sense of the term in play here. Natural cognition is intu...
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In our house a hallway ran the length of the second floor, ending at my mother's bedroom. Standing outside my room, I could look down the hall and see whether her door was open, meaning that she was awake and receiving visitors, and whether one of my five siblings was sitting in the chair facing her bed...
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autobiographical essays by Michael Milburn
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I. In our house a hallway ran the length of the second floor, ending at my mother's bedroom. Standing outside my room, I could look down the hall and see whether her door was open, meaning that she was awake and receiving visitors, and whether one of my five siblings was sitting in the chair facing her bed. I would the...
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When I watch horror today, I come to the films with a new set of experiences and from a different place than I did as a kid. When I watch Pet Sematary for the tenth time, it doesn't bother me that Gage gets put down at the end; that's his sleep, his release. What bothers me now are the adult fears, its representations ...
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Horror and the Essential Conquest of Fear
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We shut the lights down, letting the TV flicker grey as the only source of illumination. I remember the scratchy blanket over our legs. Saturday night, soggy cookie crumbs slid down the glass, blue-tinged with milk residue. I was eight years old when I sat on that couch with my mother, breathing air sweetened by chocol...
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Many Americans view Mexico as a nation of unrelenting bloodshed, where decapitated heads are rolled into nightclubs and mutilated corpses show up overnight on the roadside. Since 2006, when the government began its war on drug traffickers, more than 60,000 people have been killed. But Mexicans see their northern neighb...
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U.S. Mexico Cross-Border Murders
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Many Americans view Mexico as a nation of unrelenting bloodshed, where decapitated heads are rolled into nightclubs and mutilated corpses show up overnight on the roadside. Since 2006, when the government began its war on drug traffickers, more than 60,000 people have been killed. But Mexicans see their northern neighb...
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A Review of Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character...
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Kantian ethics or returning dignity to economics
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Economics is well-known for studying the effects of self-interested behavior, but ethical behavior has long proven elusive. It is relatively easy to incorporate consequentialist ethics into economic models of choice, because they both deal with making trade-offs in order to maximize some measure of well-being, either p...
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We are always cloaked in what has come before. But for decades I have held close to my heart a belief I discovered in Helene Cixous' Laugh of the Medusa...
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Conscious Evolution
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Past Present We are always cloaked in what has come before. But for decades I have held close to my heart a belief I discovered in Helene Cixous' Laugh of the Medusa. She explains: The Future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strength...
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David Levy's reportages from post-communist Russia
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A Reportage from Post-Soviet Russia
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"Seattle, June 2, 1995. As a 16-foot-tall statue of Vladimir Lenin was hoisted by a crane to its new home in a parking lot in this city's Fremont neighborhood, a crowd of about 100 people went wild....When the Lenin statue was finally lowered to a concrete pedestal, a young man offered a toast: "Yo, surfer dude!" he sh...
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How do scientists decide they have discovered something? Gravity's Ghost is a detective story about a potential discovery called 'the Equinox Event'. At the same time, it's an investigation of the nature of science...
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Gravity’s Ghost
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How do scientists decide they have discovered something? Gravity's Ghost is a detective story about a potential discovery called 'the Equinox Event'. At the same time, it's an investigation of the nature of science. For nearly half-a-century scientists have been trying to find the elusive gravitational waves. Nowadays ...
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In 1956, in the dead-end of the Cold War, Horkheimer and Adorno embarked on recorded discussions in view of a new version of the Communist Manifesto for the new times (just as Brecht had in 1944 felt the need to renew it for the age of world wars and in hexameter form)...
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Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time
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If I had a hammer/ I’d hammer in the morning/ I’d hammer in the evening/ All over this land/ I’d hammer out danger/ I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters/ All over this land//…// Well I’ve got a hammer/ And I’ve got a bell/ And I’ve got a song to sing/ All over this land/ It’s the hammer of justice/ It...
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The End of English as World Language?
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English: The Last Lingua Franca?
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In The Last Lingua Franca, I make a fundamental distinction between a mother-tongue, a language which is learnt naturally, and without any conscious motive, by a growing child, and a lingua-franca, which is a language learnt deliberately for some purpose. (Evidently one and the same language can be both these things to...
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Montreal Art and Literature Events, March, 2013: Rawi Hage
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Montreal Literary and Art Events, March 2013
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St. James United Church in collaboration with Professor Norman Cornett Invite you to participate in a 3 part 'dialogic' series on the writings of RAWI HAGE Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Sundays 14h00-16h00 17th, 24th February and 3rd March 2013 St. James United Church, 1440 Saint-Alexandre Cos...
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