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Like Goethe's offers a wide panorama of scenes from the vulgar to the sublime, with passages of wondrous poetry that can be sensed even through the veil of translation. And it also preserves the iridescence of its modern theme. From it Oswald Spengle...

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While it is possible to believe in God, one has to work much harder at it because the framework of belief ...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

Cixi was not at the coronation. The majestic main part of the Forbidden City was out of bounds to her – because she was a woman. She still could not set foot in it, even though she was now the de facto ruler. In fact, when her sedan-chair went with...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations that she effectively unveiled China’s first national flag. The country had had no national ensign, until its engagement with the West at the b...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black wo...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Classic Annotated and Illustrated 1818 'Uncensored' Edition: The Modern Prometheus

In the case of patentable ideas such as the wheelbarrow, the idea of unpriced spillovers is more plausible. Yet there is no reason to believe that it is of practical importance. Indeed, there is a modern example of the wheelbarrow – that of Travelp...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has...

Judaism and Modern Man - An Interpretation of Jewish Religion

In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art might be impossible in the twentieth century. The reasons that art seemed impossible are many and complex, but they were ...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

Yet when, one day, standing on the outskirts of Yokohama town, bristling with its display of modern miscellanies, I watched the sunset in your southern sea, and saw its peace and majesty among your pine-clad hills,—with the great Fujiyama growing f...

Nationalism

It is a strange thing how sometimes merely to talk honestly of God, even if it is only to articulate our feelings of separation and confusion, can bring peace to our spirits. You thought you were unhappy because this or that was off in your relations...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we chant. It is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. It is a body of knowledge that allows the individual to make sense out of the infinite...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one da...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

....and that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance.

The Cavalier

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Deschooling Society

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

Dream Warrior

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

The God Species

In modern medicine, we have a name for everything, but a cure for nothing.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Ashton Kutcher

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age...

Benazir Bhutto