Dostoevsky lost everything at the Wiesbaden casino, but the episode seemed to finally reveal to him the true depth of his habit, that it threatened not only his marriage but the life of his wife.Benjamin Shull · Issue 7 ·
The crude outlines of the Fondazione Prada exhibition form a critique of socially responsible capital, the benevolent art world, and the charity complex, too.Pierre d’Alancaisez ·
Montaigne’s comparative method encourages a complex mixture of appreciation of the many ways human beings live their lives, modesty about one’s dispositions and accomplishments, and the free but unpresumptuous exercise of individual judgment about the whole.Benjamin Storey · Issue 8 ·
Barlow believed that “Science and republican progress, coupled with religion and the growing humanity of man, portended the millennium, which he believed would take place on earth before the second coming of God.” Ed Simon · Issue 8 ·
Like Kelce and Swift, Adam and Eve were singular in their fields (they literally had no other competition) and, materially speaking, as well off as any human beings could ever hope to be.Daniel Ross Goodman ·