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A Confederate Flag Over The Washington Navy Yard

“A large Confederate flag can be seen flying over the Washington Navy Yard,” General Ben Butler told the English war…

2 weeks ago

T. S. Eliot in Love and Los Angeles: A Photo Essay

The following piece on poet and Nobel Prize laureate T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), whose birthday is on Sept. 26, was written…

2 months ago

Donald Trump’s Nether Universe, and Napoleon Bonaparte

By any measure, Donald Trump was trumped by Napoleon Bonaparte. Admittedly, the US President has a rather remarkable record for…

3 months ago

Why Ludwig Wittgenstein Matters

This piece has been excerpted from Simply Wittgenstein by James C. Klagge, part of Simply Charly's Great Lives series. Ludwig…

3 months ago

When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Go to Jane Austen

Jane Austen is a novelist to whom readers frequently turn when the going gets tough. Recently, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years:…

4 months ago

Noblesse Oblige: Alan Strauss-Schom On How Napoleon III “Left France a Modern and Prosperous Nation”

Donald Trump has dramatically demonstrated how frighteningly easy it is to render character assassinations of opponents, manufacture fake news, and…

4 months ago

Understanding Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Duck-Rabbit

It was Ludwig Wittgenstein who sparked philosophical interest in what psychologists call ambiguous figures.[1] The phrase “seeing as” became a…

5 months ago

On Reading Proust: Jack Jordan on Marcel Proust’s Masterpiece In Search of Lost Time

This piece has been excerpted from Simply Proust by Jack Jordan, part of Simply Charly’s Great Lives series. When someone asks if…

5 months ago

Igor Stravinsky: On Assessing the Greatness of a Composer

This piece has been excerpted from Simply Stravinsky by Pieter van den Toorn, part of Simply Charly's Great Lives series.…

6 months ago

Another Look at Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Descriptions

According to Bertrand Russell’s theory of descriptions, the word “the” contains two conceptual elements: existence and uniqueness. It implies that…

1 year ago