by guest contributor Pedro T. Magalhães Ideas have unintended consequences. Max Weber, the founding father of German sociology, must have been keenly aware of this. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904/05), he put forward the bold… Continue Reading →
Missed yesterday’s Lovejoy Lecture? Check out our Storify summary of the proceedings. Emily: Mary Beard, BBC Latin (A Don’s Life) David Tennant et al., Look Back in Anger; Tennant Looks Back at Osborne (BBC Radio 4) Eleanor Parker, May Miscellany… Continue Reading →
Emily: Nakul Krishna, What Enid Blyton’s school stories taught me about ethics (Aeon) and Hannah Woods, Winning University Challenge, googling my eyebrows, and inspiring girls to be swots (New Statesman) Alison Flood, Author Jenny Diski, diagnosed with inoperable cancer, dies… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Nicholas Bellinson [Fu Xi] looking up… observed the images in the heavens and looking down he observed the models in the earth. He looked at how the markings of the birds and animals were appropriate to the… Continue Reading →
Emily: Jim Farber, Before the Stonewall Uprising, There Was the ‘Sip-In’ (NY Times) Marissa Brostoff, Where the Boys Are, on Bernie Sanders, gender and politics (n+1) Rachel L. Swarns, 272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Jake Purcell One of the joys of being in New York is the relative plethora of late-antique objects scattered throughout the city. The Met does not exactly have a late antique room, but, in a corridor gallery… Continue Reading →
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