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Zan Boag: You said that one regret in your life that you hadn’t taken enough risks, that you’d been too cautious in your career and in your travels. You say, “I wish I’d done more adventurous things.” What…
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“The easy thing is just to conform. If you look at the history of intellectuals back to the earliest times, every society that…
In 1842, after a series of military defeats through the course of the First Opium War, the Chinese Qing dynasty signed the Nanjing Treaty…
What is your demon? My demon is digital distractions, serving as a modern mind’s junk food, masking the deeper malaise of societal indifference and…
Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history it was a simple…
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned…
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“[The] selective concern with the ‘inner drama’ enables the writer or artist to capture the essential feature of human experience; it allows him to…
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“If you can in one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.” These words were reportedly…
By Marina Benjamin When the British Museum in London was in the process of acquiring its spectacular wave-form roof in the late 1990s, I…
“Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and I carry on because…