Category: history

• Required Reading (definitely though with love)

  Jul 3

  This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither… more ›

• Required Reading (definitely though with love)

  Jul 3

  This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither… more ›

• Podcast-aways

  Jun 25

  Here are my favorite podcast subscriptions. There’s something for everyone. Well, maybe not you. Twelve Byzantine RulersThis history of the Byzantine Empire is a lecture series written and presented by… more ›

• Podcast-aways

  Jun 25

  Here are my favorite podcast subscriptions. There’s something for everyone. Well, maybe not you. Twelve Byzantine RulersThis history of the Byzantine Empire is a lecture series written and presented by… more ›

• Memory of Loss

  May 24

  The dead will always outnumber the living. One of my favorite works at the Art Institute was Chagall’s 1938 White Crucifixion. In it Chagall chooses to depict the crucifixion of… more ›

• Memory of Loss

  May 24

  The dead will always outnumber the living. One of my favorite works at the Art Institute was Chagall’s 1938 White Crucifixion. In it Chagall chooses to depict the crucifixion of… more ›

• The Unnamable (A Protocol)

  Feb 8

  9/11 is an American quasi-logo denoting the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which becomes in its use an ideogram in which we continually re-inscribe the Twin Towers. Lower Manhattan… more ›

• The Unnamable (A Protocol)

  Feb 8

  9/11 is an American quasi-logo denoting the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which becomes in its use an ideogram in which we continually re-inscribe the Twin Towers. Lower Manhattan… more ›