Honoring a Vet

Posted on November 11, 2014
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Returning to base, Davis and the other pilots heard their orders for the next day: Attack Kiska Harbor with everything they had regardless of the weather.

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Ecce Homo

Posted on November 6, 2014
Image: Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (detail), c. 1906, by Edvard Munch (1863–1944); Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway; De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images.

That Edvard Munch never met Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the great missed encounters of the modern age.

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Prejudice and Place

Posted on November 5, 2014
If by “prejudice” Sandel means “subjective understanding,” then I’m not entirely sure it needs defending.
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