What we do know is that the structures were built in dark, challenging conditions and the builders had no natural light to help them. Indeed, Jaubert’s team found traces of fire at several points around and on the structures. The…
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Nicholas Gallagher: Immigration and the Political Explosion of 2016 – The American Interest
Just as how at the turn of the 20th century, people failed to see how factory work would thoroughly replace family farming as the source of American income and identity, so too today we struggle to foresee what will come after “Allentown.” As…
The Oldest Song in the World – Open Culture
The piece, writes Richard Fink in a 1988 Archeologia Musicalis article, confirms a theory that “the 7-note diatonic scale as well as harmony existed 3,400 years ago.” This, Fink tells us, “flies in the face of most musicologist’s views that…
Pseudoerasmus: The Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
In other words, the Beckert recipe is: start with Marx and “primitive accumulation“, both domestic and international. Marx had gleefully welcomed the imperialists’ destruction of the “semi-barbarian, semi-civilized communities [of Bengal], by blowing up their economical basis, and thus produced the…
Could we really call it a ‘temple’? – The Tepe Telegrams
As already noted in the beginning, we know little of the beliefs these people might have followed, so it would seem rather bold to denote these monumental pillar-statues as personifications of ‘deities’. But faceless, larger than life and highly abstract,…
A Trump Rally Live-Tweeted
“Suv blaring I Am A Real American, waving Trump hats and flipping off homeless and car with Mexican flag. What reality is this…”
The classics and the Constitution: The smokescreen of republicanism and the creation of the Republic – OUPblog
Neither Adams nor the authors of the Federalist Papers were classical republicans in either the Aristotelian, Sallustian, or Machiavellian sense of the term. In a way you could say, therefore, that the political theory of the Constitution and the ratification debates left…
Subtweet (American Conservative Eschaton)
With less and less semblance of temperamental conservatism, ever more self-destructively, nominally conservative Americans have sought in vain to immanentize as eschaton the non-immanentization of eschaton.
@Libroantiguo: 13th c. Map of the world, with Jerusalem at the centre and the monstrous races on the outermost edge – Twitter
From: Bibliophilia on Twitter: “Psalter map, 13th c. Map of the world, with Jerusalem at the centre and the monstrous races on the outermost edge”
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@Noahpinion: “if this doesn’t impress you, you’re *choosing* not to be impressed.” – Twitter
“@ViscidKonrad Man, if this doesn’t impress you, you’re *choosing* not to be impressed.” From: Noah Smith on Twitter: “@ViscidKonrad Man, if this doesn’t impress you, you’re *choosing* not to be impressed. https://t.co/RHqXRjU4WI”