U krańca Lublina czworokąt czarny szumem poemat wiatrów skanduje. Klony, brzeziny, kasztany, tuje obsiadły wyspę umarłych. [At the edge of…
Herodotus of Halicarnassus conceived of history as a collective act of cultural heritage preservation, an effort “to prevent the traces…
I Published in 36 lavishly illustrated quarto volumes between 1749 and 1804, the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, générale et…
The 85 essays that comprise The Federalist Papers are in great measure concerned with the principle of the separation of…
I In the German district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, near where the Schwarzbrunnenbach flows westward into the Zottbach, lies…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…
I regret to inform the reader that the realists are at it again, and this time, they seem to have…
I. Anthropologists call it schismogenesis — the process by which one group’s behavior elicits a contrasting response from the other,…
So you’ve decided to become a realist. Not a philosophical realist, like Wittgenstein or Popper. Not an artistic realist, like…
I Each day brings forth some new enormity perpetrated by the Russian military against the people of Ukraine, as it…
