Click Here to Read: Evan Rachel Wood on the Gaslighting of America: The award-winning actress discusses her spellbinding new turn in ‘Allure,’ in theaters March 16, and the harsh reality of life under President Trump by Marlow Stern on the Daily Beast website on March 14 2018.
How to Admit That You’re Wrong (Even If You’re Always Right)
Click Here to Read: How to Admit That You’re Wrong (Even If You’re Always Right): In this age of denialism, it’s more important to state plain truths such as “I was wrong.” It also makes you a better role model.By Louis Anthony Loftus on the Fatherly website on February 27 2018.
Photo:Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Historian Tuesday: Thucydides
Click Here to Read: Thucydides on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: History: The Trump team is obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war By Michael Crowley on the Politico website on June 21, 2017/
Click Here to Read: The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed by Graham Allison on September 24, 2015.
Click Here to Read: The Risks and Rewards of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War by S.M. Jaffe on the War on the Rocks website on July 6, 2017
Click Here to Read: Thucydides and the Tragedy of Athens: A Parable for America by John H. Maurer on the Foreign Policy Research website on June 26, 2017.
This is the plaster cast bust currently in exposition of Zurab Tsereteli’s gallery in Moscow (part of Russian Academy of Arts), formerly from the collection of castings of Pushkin museum made in early 1900-1910s.
Original bust is a Roman copy (c. 100 CE) of an early 4th Century BCE Greek original, and is located in Holkham Hall in Norfolk, UK. 2008 Photo: shakko
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Movies Monday: The Death of Stalin
Click Here to Read: Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived “black comedy” By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on March 9, 2018.
Click Here to Read: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’: By Manhola DargAis in The New York Times on March 8, 2018.
Click Here to Read: The Death of Stalin Movie Review by Glenn Kenny on the Roger Ebert website on March 9, 2018.
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