Gamma Senmin, Soga Shōhaku (1730-1783). Freer Collection, Washington.
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“The crisis of our time.” - January 5, 2025 - On my return from Palestine. I recently returned from the West Bank, where I spent six weeks traveling in the governorates of Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron. It was my second trip there this year—the first was in April and May....
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: American-Century Flight - December 31, 2024 - “American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run. I have long nursed a keen interest in the Cold War’s corruptions on the cultural side — who...Cú Chulainn.
Cú Chulainn stirred,
Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
The cars of battle and his own name cried;
And fought with the invulnerable tide.
——Yeats, Cú Chulainn’s Fight with the Sea,
1892
