Jean Baudrillard, who died some twenty years ago, was a French intellectual, and this, perhaps, is all the gentle reader wants to know. But in fact, the species Baudrillard represents is not indigenous to voluble France.
On rare occasions the pop news stream accidentally allows a slight glimmer of light to shine through a small chink in its masonic, demonic armor.
Those who most hate Trump and are wallowing in every alleged salacious detail are the most amoral in our society, beginning with being the biggest backers of abortion.
When asked to name the writer who best described daily life in the United States, my father invariably answered, “Chekhov.”
If we can trust a recent Rasmussen poll, nearly half the eligible voters in the United States believe the republic established by the mythical founding fathers has crumbled. Predictably, Republicans are more inclined to this gloomy opinion than Democrats, and perhaps surprisingly, women more than men.
If access to the sea determined the future of Pisa as a race of sailors and adventurers, Siena’s location in the arid mountains was equally significant. Despite the great beauty of the landscape, the fact is that Siena lacked water and was subject to serious droughts.
In this podcast we introduce Petrarch, speak briefly about his life and work, and proceed to discuss his recommendations on how to lead a private life.
Seeing an opportunity in the Pisan disaster, Florence and its Guelf allies struck, but after the fall of Ugolino, Pisan patriotism revived, and–short of men–in 1292 they secured a famous condottiere, Guido da Montefeltro, who trained the Pisan militia to use crossbows and recovered the city’s lost fortresses from both Lucca and Florence.
Strictly speaking, I should’ve stayed home last Saturday, passing time in meditation and prayer, but then how would we have celebrated on Sunday?
I was hoping last year’s movie “Oppenheimer” would make people more aware of the perils of Armageddon. It didn’t. We’re still closer to nuclear war than ever since the first A-bomb was exploded 79 years ago at Alamogordo.
