If guilt were a vat of acid, then Western civilization is something that readily dissolves in acid. Maybe acidic guilt…
Most of us are the offspring of people who came here during the great waves of unrestricted European immigration between…
I In a dimly lit corner of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, amidst an impressive array of Buddhist art bequeathed to…
Tearing down statues has become the latest nihilistic pleasure in America. Never mind legal process, property ownership, and democratic decision….
I broke my ankle early in the coronavirus lockdown. So at least I’m locked down by something real; otherwise I…
History is a series of nights and days. Short days and protracted nights. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila I As the French…
I In the early days of the Wuhan plague, the Berlin daily newspaper Tagesspiegel warned its readers that the new…
The Han-era chronicler Ssu-ma Ch’ien, in his Records of the Grand Historian, recounted the considerable lengths to which unified China’s…
The Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen and his Greenlandic Inuit companions Miteq and Arnarulunguaq embarked on the Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–24)…
