The site was only recently discovered but unfortunately was not open to hoi polloi when I was there. Hence these two through-the-fence shots: The site is on the east side of Rigillis Street, about a kilometer east of the Acropolis. It’s just south of the Byzantine Museum and a neo-classical building that apparently serves a […]
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This interview could be subtitled Entrepreneurship from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego to Houston and Bolivia and more. Guillermo “Billy” Yeatts has had a colorful career, first working as an analyst for Citibank in New York and an executive for Ford in Detroit and Massey Ferguson in Argentina before launching his own entrepreneurial businesses
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Você pode ter notado que as coisas no mundo da arte estão um pouco, bem, fora do lugar. Entre os artistas que mais ouvimos falar hoje estão a “garota-vômito”, também conhecida como Millie Brown, que bebe leite de soja com corantes e o vomita na tela. Ou Jeff Koons, que recebe milhões por objetos intencionalmente
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A scenario that is beloved of ethicists, public policy experts, and management consultants asks you to imagine yourself on a lifeboat. “Built into such scenarios are powerful assumptions with life-or-death consequences, so as we work through the lifeboat scenario try to make those assumptions explicit. Here we go: “You
On December 6, 2014, I’ll be giving a three-hour seminar for graduate students at the Catholic University of Portugal. My topic is “Two Narratives of Modernity: Enlightenment and Postmodern.” The seminar is hosted by the Institute for Political Studies and is part of its “Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies” series. Many thanks to Professor João
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Um antigo fantasma está novamente assombrando a Europa — movimentos e partidos políticos neofascistas e neonazistas estão voltando à tona. Essa reportagem no The Guardian destaca um aumento nos ataques aos judeus na França, Alemanha e Holanda. Mais ao leste e ao sul, partidos simpatizantes ao nazismo estão crescendo nas urnas em países como Hungria
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I was fortunate to visit Chojnice in May 2014, in connection with the publication of the Polish translation of my Nietzsche and the Nazis book. My visit was made possible by the Fuhrmann Foundation and Mayor Arseniusz Finster. I was impressed for several reasons. One was the beauty of Chojnice — its historical buildings and
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