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☆ Opinion | The 17th-Century Heretic We Could Really Use Now
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Ian Buruma | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Enlightenment philosopher Baruch Spinoza almost died for his ideals one day in 1672. Spinoza, a Sephardic Jew born in Amsterdam in 1632, was a passionate and outspoken defender of freedom, tolerance and moderation. Only one of his books, about the French philosopher Descartes, could be published under his own name during his lifetime. This is perhaps why new books about him are coming out all the time, including Jonathan Israel’s 2023 magnum opus “Spinoza, Life and Legacy” and even a best-selling French novel, “Le Problème Spinoza,” by Irvin Yalom. And all that for a philosopher who was denounced by Christians and Jews as the devil’s disciple long after his own time.

Persons: Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza, Johan de Witt, ”, rousers, hadn’t, Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, demagoguery, Jonathan Israel’s, “ Le Problème Spinoza, Irvin Yalom, George Eliot, unreservedly Locations: Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, British

☆ Opinion | How Art Creates Us
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Recently, while browsing in the Museum of Modern Art store in New York, I came across a tote bag with the inscription, “You are no longer the same after experiencing art.” It’s a nice sentiment, I thought, but is it true? Or to be more specific: Does consuming art, music, literature and the rest of what we call culture make you a better person? Ages ago, Aristotle thought it did, but these days a lot of people seem to doubt it. Since the early 2000s, fewer and fewer people say that they visit art museums and galleries, go to see plays or attend classical music concerts, opera or ballet. Thanks to Hurston she had a new way to see, a deeper way to connect to her own heritage.

Persons: ”, Aristotle, They’ve, George Eliot, I’m, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston Organizations: Museum of Modern, tote, College, Workers Locations: New York

☆ A Famed Cemetery Is Nearly Full. Can It Reuse Old Graves to Add More Space?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Isabella Kwai | More About Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In death, as in life, it is expensive to have famous people as your neighbors. There is hardly any space left at Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard in north London where Karl Marx, George Michael and George Eliot are buried, along with 170,000 other Londoners. The price of a grave to rest in esteemed peace? That cost gained attention in British media this week, after the historic site notified the public it had begun a process of adding new gravesites. “Cemeteries are quite expensive places to maintain,” said Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the charity that manages Highgate Cemetery, adding that dwindling space on the property contributed in part to the high cost of being buried there.

Persons: Karl Marx, George Michael, George Eliot, ”, Ian Dungavell, “ Organizations: Highgate Locations: London, “, Highgate

☆ Fact Check: ‘Patriots’ protecting Nuneaton statue post is satire
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The original Nov. 14 post on X (archived), formerly Twitter, has a photo of four men standing in front of the Eliot statue in Nuneaton with the caption: “Can’t make this up. As the events in London were kicking off, Brave Patriots of Nuneaton were courageously protecting the town statue. Another Facebook user (archived) who shared a screenshot of the satirical post said: “The brave patriots of Nuneaton on Armistice Day, proudly protecting a statue of *checks notes* George Elliot. Take that Antifa!”The photograph, which does show four men guarding the statue, was captured in June 2020 while a Black Lives Matter demonstration was underway in Nuneaton town centre. The X user who originally posted the claim said his post was satire.

Persons: George Eliot, Eliot, Churchill, George Elliot, Jane Austen, Gosh, ”, Read Organizations: Brave Patriots, Nuneaton, Facebook, Labour Party, Coventry Telegraph, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Britain, London, Nuneaton, Whitehall, Local

☆ Opinion | The Lines Between Red and Blue America Are Blurring, Not Hardening
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Jesse Nathan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

We canned our own tomatoes and turned ice cream by hand but also traveled to the East Coast for b’nai mitzvah. This summer a little town of a few thousand near my family’s farm held a Pride parade — for the fourth time. There’s even a small queer community at the little high school I attended. These so-called red states are their home, and many of them will raise families there. Kansas was, after all, the first state to reject — resoundingly — an effort to roll back abortion access after Roe was struck down.

Persons: peck, —, John Prine, “, George Eliot, Rosa Luxemburg, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Angela Davis, Pete Seeger, I’d, Matthew Shepard’s, Kris Kobach, Roe Organizations: University of California, Columbia Law School, United Farm Workers, Oakland, Mennonite, for Rural Culture Locations: Oakland, Berkeley, Kansas, California, East Coast, There’s, Kansas , Texas , Ohio, New York

☆ Opinion | What Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Meant When She Said ‘Blink’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

To a linguist, there is so much to appreciate in just about every word. And over the past couple of weeks, I have been delighting in none other than the word “blink.”This delight was inspired by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. In fact, in different ways, the word “blink” points us both backward and forward in time. Justice Jackson’s usage of the term was apparently the result of the expression “blinks reality,” which is relatively common in legal writings. “Blink” had come to mean “neglect” by the 18th century, and the usage was ordinary up through the Gilded Age.

Persons: Ketanji Brown Jackson, ”, George Eliot’s “ Adam Bede ”, Henry James’s, Blink ”, “ Organizations: Supreme

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Persons: Lev Tolstoi, Foarte Bune, și, Bune, Ali, Baba și, Prințul, Pușkin, Napoleon, Iosif din, Dobrînia Nikitich, Ilia Muromeț, Mexico de William Prescott, Nikolai Gogol, Laurence Sterne, Mikhail Lermontov, Anton de Dmitry Grigorovich, Polinka Saks, Aleksandr Druzhinin, Ivan Turgenev, Räuber, Friedrich Schiller, Yevgeny Onegin de Alexander Pushkin, Julie, de Jean, Jacques Rousseau, Matthew, „, Jean Jacques, Rousseau, EB, Emile, Education de Jean Jacques, David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Tinerii, Odiseea, Homer, Plato, Hermann, Dorothea de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dame de Paris, Dame de Paris de Victor Hugo, persoanele, Nuvele de Henry Wood, Nuvele de George Eliot, Nuvele de Anthony Trollope, Xenophon’s, Mizerabilii de Victor Hugo, Theodore Parker, Henry George, FB, de Ludwig Feuerbach, Pensées, Blaise Pascal, Confucius, Lalita, Sakya Sinha de Rajendralala Mitra, Tzu Organizations: Povestea, Education de, Notre, Dame, Dame de Paris de Locations: vârsta, Mexico, „

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