The Return of the Cicadas - The American Spectator

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The Return of the Cicadas

Thoughts on our impending insect visitors, who come around once every 17 years.

by Matthew Omolesky

May 1, 2021, 12:04 AM

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Las civilizaciones son bullicio estival de insectos entre dos inviernos.

Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.

– Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Nuevos Escolios a un Texto Im...

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Matthew Omolesky is a human rights lawyer and a researcher in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and law and anthropology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he has been contributing to The American Spectator since 2006, as well as to publications including Quadrant, Lehrhaus, Europe2020, the European Journal of Archaeology, and Democratiya.

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