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The Life of Donald Trump

You might know him as the 45th President of the United States of America, or a reality television star. Other people might refer to him…

My Friend

The dearest friend that I have is Jake from my times at The Evergreen State College. Not only did I find a friend in him,…

The Life of William Blake

By Nicholas Klacsanzky William Blake—poet, engraver, painter, and philosopher—was a true iconoclast. Though he is often regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age,…

The Most Famous Person of All Time

Your first guess for the most famous person of all time is probably correct: Jesus Christ, though Prophet Muhammad, Buddha, and John Lennon are close…

John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States. But how much does an average person know about him? In the following paragraphs,…

George Washington’s Life

We know him as the first president of the United States, and as an honored general, but what else should we know about him? I…

Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

By Bernd Brunner Ernst Haeckel and his sixteen steamer trunks arrived at the harbor of Colombo “in the glorious light of a cloudless tropical morning”…

First as Tragedy, Then As Farce, by Slavoj Žižek

By Mark Carrigan It has now been a year and a half since the onset of the financial crisis, and the original dearth of literature…

Jean Baudrillard

By Patrick West The late Jean Baudrillard was often described, not always approvingly, as ‘the high priest of postmodernism’. The philosopher and sociologist depicted a…

The Reward Society by Tom Manion

By Dave Clements Public services cannot be sustained at their current level. They are under unprecedented pressure from the global financial crisis, the slow growth…

Nostalgia and Newness: David Bowie Is, V&A, London

By Nicky Charlish Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David…

Elon Musk’s Human 2.0 Initiative

Recently, there has been a lot of speculation regarding artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial neural networks currently being developed by several big companies including Google, and…

The Power of the Playful

By Nicky Charlish Imagination and precision are two attributes that we might think are in conflict, with the former being a product of freedom and…

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Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture

This article [Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/01/24/ernst-haeckel-and-the-unity-of-culture/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If…

Frederick Perls

When talking about psychoanalysis, psychology, and mentioning other topics connected to the human psyche, people mostly remember Sigmund Freud, and sometimes Alfred Adler, or even…

Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde

This article [Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…