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by guest contributor Jeffrey A. Barash
By guest contributor Kristin Buhrow The selection of successors to political and religious leadership roles is determined by different criteria around the world. In the Himalayas, a unique form of determining succession is used: the concept of Tulkuhood. Based in Tibetan… Continue Reading →
Spence Peggy Kamuf, “Who Has the Right to Move?” (LARB) Martin Filler, “The Best Kind of Princess” (NYRB) Ingrid D. Rowland, “The Virtuoso of Compassion” (NYRB) Rupert Shortt, “Alvin Plantinga and the Templeton Prize” (TLS) Eric Nicholas Heron, “70 Years… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Yung In Chae When professional troll James Delingpole recently bemoaned in the Spectator the demise of “a real Oxbridge education” at the hands of misguided social justice initiatives, professional classicist Mary Beard ended her response with the… Continue Reading →
Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Derek William Chace, “Why Pick on… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Laurel Waycott In 1893, Henry Balfour, curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, conducted an experiment. He traced a drawing of a snail crawling over a twig, and passed it to another person, whom he… Continue Reading →
