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Quotes: 29 August 2026
Wonder Confronts Certainty
Gary Saul Morson
Chekhov, too, was appalled. Commenting on the revolutionaries’ strategy of exacerbating, rather than ameliorating, the epidemic of cholera (the worse, the better), he wrote to his friend Suvorin...
Quotes: 28 August 2026
Men in Dark Times
Hannah Arendt
Politics deals with men, nationals of many countries and heirs to many pasts; its laws are the positively established fences which hedge in, protect, and limit the space in which freedom is not a concept, b...
Quotes: 27 August 2026
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff
Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from the desire to penetrate to first cau...
Quotes: 25 August 2026
On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
For humans, time can resolve itself into subjective moments that we experience and then can remember. We lose time by not focusing, by not encoding moments from the flux. Simone Weil thought the “quantity of crea...
Quotes: 14 August 2026
The Soul of the World
Roger Scruton
Whatever we think of it, we must acknowledge that evolutionary psychology cannot give a complete picture either of our states of mind, or of the universe that is represented in them.
End Times
Peter T...
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I’m a retired attorney & counselor. I received my eduction from the U of Iowa. I’m an Iowa native. My wife & I lived in India, China, and Romania between 2012 & 2018.
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