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“What are the sources of our dignity?”
How clear the eyes. Thoreau, the Benjamin D. Maxham Daguerrotype, 1856. (National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons.)
Summer Readings.
19 September—The theme of this year’s Mut zur Ethik conference, a series of lectures held each summ...
“Peace ‘between the sword and the neck.’”
Al–Mughayyir. Rabhi Abu Alia, age 17 (left above). Omar Muhammad Naasan, age 18 (right above). Killed by occupation forces on 2 September 2026.
Summer Readings.
We continue our Summer Readings with the first of two lectures delivered at t...
“The Russians treated them humanely. Their own command didn’t.”
They didn’t take it home. Ukrainian wreckage, Kursk, 2025. (Mil.ru, cc by 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.)
Guy Mettan is in the business of turning orthodoxies upside down. His method has always impressed us as superbly effective. He eschews slant...
“‘Russia is running out of steam.’ Really?”
A luta continua. Kursk remembers the Red Army’s 1943 victory. (Guy Mettan.)
Summer readings.
The New York Times just ran a pair of especially preposterous pieces concerning the state of the war the West wages, via Ukraine, against the Ru...
“Seeing others as they are.”
When we do we will see the world as it is.
This is the second of two essays on the question of our collective sight and its opposite. Part 1 of this series is here.
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