a kind of pure distillation of the blind spots, prejudices and limitations of modern literary theory as a whole. The most impressive and remarkable fact about it is that it succeeded in producing some individual critical studies (not least those by Poulet, Richard and Starobinski) of considerabl...
Far north, the Xiong'an New Area near Beijing is a new city of socialist modernization planned by Xi. In May last year, Xi visited this "city of the future" under construction, paying particular attention to the ecological conditions of Baiyangdian Lake. Highlighting water source conservation an...
as told by his mother. Yue was a patriotic military commander from the 12th century whose mother tattooed "serve the country with the utmost devotion" on his back, a phrase that embodies "Zhong,"
Authorities say a man suspected of a vicious attack on a shopper inside the Johnson City Walmart store also tried to choke a village police officer.
Yes the man most associated with negative interest-rates and QE ( called QQE in Japan) has been offering his opinion on events. He then became quite bullish on events. “Japan’s economy is completely back,” Kuroda said Thursday at a conference in Tokyo. “It’s perfectly natural for the...
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" - Blaise Pascal
Fortunately for them they do attract most intellectuals with the siren song of “because you’re smarter than other people, you see this.” I was fortunate, I guess, to have grown up in a religion that has a long list of approved prophecies going back centuries, some of which range from...
A man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired a gun into the home of a former girlfriend.
Freedom from being apologetic about our size. Yes, Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world. Why should we be apologetic about it? The tendency of our being apologetic has often led us to seek to please other nations and, in the process, to displease ourselves. Why do we ...
among others. And all of these former schools are moribund; there is even less uniting the contemporary work of supposedly “analytic” philosophers. “Analytic” has become a term of either abuse or affiliation, depending on who is using it, for most of what is currently popular in mainstream...