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On Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) [by Jamie Katz]
Nine years ago, on October 26, 2012, we received a few comments in response to David's post about Jacques Barzun, the great Columbia professor, who once graced the cover of Time magazine. Jacques died on…
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“International Experts” by Pamela Brown [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
With the recent announcement to open Australia's international borders next month (or as the Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls it on his official website, "taking steps to reopen to the world", which sounds more…
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Kierkegaard on systems
<< In relation to their systems most systematizers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and lives in a shack close by.>> Elsewhere Kierkegaard says that people correspond to parts of speech.…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Seventeen): Hannah Dow [by Angela Ball]
Another Summer Without Classical Music I haven’t lived in Southern California very long but every summer that I do it occurs to meonly after the summer has endedthat I should go see “Mozart Under…
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Reginald Dwayne Betts: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Reginald Dwayne Betts. Photo by Mamadi Doumbouya ______________________________________________________________ Blood History…
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“Stick” [by James Cummins]
It was intra-squad, not a real game,But teenage boys don’t know the difference;And to the pitcher who’d just thrownAn adrenaline-powered fastball at my head,I was a pretender he could intimidate.When the next pitch nearly…
