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The “time” to which the seventeenth century English philosopher refers is that calculable interval spent in the “State of Nature.” This anarchic

From the blog of Ralph Genende at The Australian Jewish News

Ask me what a short story is. Go on, ask me. What is a short story? Stephen Vincent Benét: "Something that can be read in an hour and remembered f...

Begin to find your rest and creativity alive and anew in silence.

Had Blücher been a little late at Waterloo, or Cleopatra’s nose been just a little shorter, as speculated counterfactually by Blaise Pascal, or had there

Circa 1950, Katherine Anne Porter read a magazine article about what someone should do "if and when we see that flash brighter than the sun which means the atom bomb had arrived." She was disappointed when "the advice dwindled to this: The only real safety seems to lie in simply being somewhere else at the time, the farther away the better ..."

Biblioasis’s new series tries to incite debate and fill a hole in the publishing landscape

The enforced brevity of social media means people are getting to the point faster. Brands must sit up and pay attention. Or fail to win that of their consumers.

Perhaps embracing idleness for its own sake could provide us with a new perspective on how we can best make use of the limited hours of our day.

11th century polymath held in high esteem both at home, abroad, gained popularity in West in 19th century through translation