Louie – Reflective Review
In medieval times, kings enjoyed almost unlimited power. Well, there was also the Pope, and God, and sometimes kings ended up in cellars waiting for…
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The Hateful Eight
Western movies, extremely popular several decades ago, have now turned in a niche genre; once or twice in a year, an unsophisticated viewer can notice…
The Surprising Effects of Western Classical Music
One of the finest examples of cultural legacy that humanity has produced so far, and that will undoubtedly endure through centuries, is western classical music.…
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…
Newton’s Law of Gravity
Kepler’s laws were a beautifully simple explanation of what the planets did, but they did not address why they moved as they did. Did the…
Newton’s Second Law
What about cases where the total force on an object is not zero, so that Newton’s first law does not apply? The object will have…
Kepler’s Laws
Newton would not have been able to figure out why the planets move the way they do if it had not been for the astronomer…
Why Donald Trump Is the Worst Presidential Candidate for the US
Soon the United States will have a new president. After two terms of Barack Obama’s presidency, the country expects the new leader to not only…
What Burns Me about the Bern: The Fellow Traveling of Bernie Sanders
By Nevin Gussack A number of leftist senators and congressmen developed positions and attitudes that were favorable towards communist dictatorships. In some cases, such elected…
Donald Trump: Why He Cannot “Make America Great Again”
Over the last few months, billionaire businessman Donald Trump has taken the political world by storm after rising to the position of the Republican frontrunner…
Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World
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Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints
This article [Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/10/who-says-michelangelo-was-right/]…
Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution
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The Poet, the Physician, and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
This article [The Poet, the Physician, and the Birth of the Modern Vampire] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physician-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-vampire/] under a Creative…
The Rise and Fall of Bernie Sanders
In the 2016 US presidential primary election, the most revolutionary figure had been Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran as a democrat, though he identified…
In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book
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Wild Heart Turning White: Georg Trakl and Cocaine
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The Reasons Why America Joined WW1
The beginning of the 21st century was stained with one of the most tragic events in human history: the First World War. Although it started…
The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
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Time and Place: Eric Ravilious (1903-1942)
By Frank Delaney In the early nineteen-eighties, for a commission about the sense of place in John Betjeman’s poetry, I worked with a photographer named…
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