I must admit this is definitely one of my favorite films of all time. I say this in hopes it will make you watch it if you have not already. I truly think it is a film everyone needs to see for themselves. It holds such a profound meaning for me every single time I watch it, t...
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting...
Victor A. Tcherikover, Hellenis- tic Civilization and the Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1959) 1–151, political, economic, and social history of Palestine from Alexander to Antiochus IV. 1 Enoch Translation: George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 ...
It wasn’t until the bottom dropped out that I realized what was going on. It crept up on me, so stealthy, that in spite of my extensive experience with depression in friends and family members, I didn’t recognize it until the day that I could. not. stop. crying–and even then I ...
This is not the most erudite debate, but it pretty much sums up matters. (h/t Vinik/TNR)Reality check: Figure 1 below depicts the evolution of the nominal trade weighted dollar, inflation and Treasurys.Figure 1: Nominal trade weighted value of the US dollar –...
in Newtown, in what has been called “the safest town in America,” is a symptom and expression of an underlying web of pathology that pervades not only our society, but the world at large. It is as if our civilization is having a collective nervous breakdown, in which the underlying dys...