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Michael Novak
Michael Novak There I was, quietly eating my vegetable soup listening to ABC Classical radio when the next item came on: it was Ralph [...]
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Here and There – Japan
Here and there – Japan I have always enjoyed my visits to Japan, and at the same time I have always felt an outsider, [...]
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Kenneth Gergen
Kenneth Gergen On page 14, there is a cartoon, a Larson cartoon. In an otherwise empty room, a man is sitting at a desk, [...]
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto In the face of vast quantities of information and analyses about wars, floods, political jousting and so many other topics, we are [...]
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Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio On September 13, 1848, a twenty-five-year-old foreman was directing a team blasting rocks to open up a path for a railway line [...]
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Here and There – Greece
Here and There – Greece Perhaps because it is at the ‘wrong’ end of Europe, the eastern end, the furthest away from the UK [...]
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John Carroll
John Carroll There are some books, only a few, where reading them again is rather like being invited back into a warm and welcoming [...]
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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin Nearly sixty years ago, some 250,000 people took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. I am confident that [...]
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David Abram
David Abram We were in the US. Once again, my youngest daughter was in between the stacks of the Border’s store on Columbus Circle, [...]