Two good pieces you may have missed: On moral injury and on the Iran letterThomas E. RicksForeign Policy
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as clos
Teachers are not just conveyors of information; they are role models who shape the values and behaviors of their students. Good teachers lead by example, demonstrating integrity, respect. They inspire students not only through what they say but also through their actions. By modeling qualities of ...
Whether we kill someone for a higher moral reason or not, we should be crushed if life was ended and that we contributed to the act. The dark alternative to this deep mourning is the hardening of our hearts where we become more callous to the honor and dignity of human life. There's ...
One of the signs of this being a parody are some of the names of the players (although, once again, how do you parody something like the James Bond brand, which itself seems to play pretty fast, loose, and humorously with character names). We have Mrs. Highman, one of the leaders ...
On the other hand, even an article with a few grammar errors or spelling typos can catch on and be appreciated when it presents information that people like, that has a definitive conclusion, that takes a stance, informs, entertains, or has recognizable character that people like. When they ...
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. — Mary McCarthy 0 Donald Trump is Donald Trump! He doesn't...
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is ...
he attempts to demonstrate thenon-exemplarity of theexemplum.The problematic character of exemplarityfrom the very beginning of Greek literature, then, casts its shadow overPlutarch. If we can consider hisLivesto be, in a sense, historicalexemplawritlarge, especially if meant as moral exemplarity...
not – I don’t -, there’s no denying that “post-truth” has been everywhere in the press and on social networks. Yet, as a historian of science with little – if any – interest in questions of “truthfulness” and “falsity”, I would like to suggest another ten-letter word for...