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		<title>Wagner and the Jews</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nathan&#8217;s Wagner and the Jews is the January essay for Mosaic Magazine.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Karl Kraus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This letter was written to the NYRB in response to Michael Hofmann&#8217;s recent review of The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann): &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Early in his review of The Kraus Project, Michael Hofmann observes that &#8220;most of Kraus’s writing was <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=15217' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nikolay Khozyainov</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I listened to the Van Cliburn competition online, and wrote a post about Haochen Zhang, the young Chinese pianist who eventually shared the gold medal. In this year&#8217;s Van Cliburn my favorite pianist was the 20 year-old Russian Nikolay Khozyainov. He is an exceptional musician. As with Zhang,  there is a kind of <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=15016' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reversing Desertification</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am wary of visionaries, but found this talk by Allan Savory fascinating. . . More information is available at the Savory Institute; and there is a balanced critical assess&#173;­ment by Chad Kruger, here and here. &#8211;Paul]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Chatting Protein</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forkhead box protein P2 is a protein expressed by the FOXP2 gene, located on human chromosome 7. First discovered by scientists at Oxford University in 2001, damage to the FOXP2 gene is linked to severe speech and language impairment. Research in the past decade has only begun to unravel the complex role of FOXP2 in human <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14613' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Phil at Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Music and the Romantic Image of Nature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>So you want to write a fugue?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduced by Glenn Gould himself, this was part of a 1963 CBC television production. Here is the approximate text: So you want to write a fugue. You got the urge to write a fugue. You got the nerve to write a fugue. So go ahead, so go ahead and write a fugue. Go ahead and write <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14296' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Diversity Boycott</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These reflections by Jonathan Rauch, in my view, express the crucial point: &#8211;Paul]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charles S. Peirce on the Logic of Number</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So this is to announce that Charles S. Peirce on the Logic of Number has been pub­lished by Docent Press. It was originally written over 30 years ago. Here are some extracts from the Introduction: In 1881 the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce published a remark­able paper in The American Journal of Mathematics called “On the Logic of Number.” <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14097' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Last European</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now in his 80&#8217;s, George Steiner has written a new book called The Poetry of Thought: from Hellenism to Celan.  This book is the topic of a provocative essay in the Kenyon Review by poet Amit Majmudar. Majmudar describes Steiner as a &#8220;brilliant student&#8221; who asks what he calls &#8220;Steiner Questions&#8221; &#8212; questions that have <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14061' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wrong Concerto</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maria Joao Pires prepares the wrong piano concerto.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From the Prelude</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by William Wordsworth Thus my days are past In contradiction; with no skill to part Vague longing, haply bred by want of power, From paramount impulse not to be withstood, A timorous capacity, from prudence, From circumspection, infinite delay. Humility and modest awe, themselves Betray me, serving often for a cloak To a more subtle <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14036' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wake Up, Sheeple!</title>
		<link>https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=14022</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From xkcd.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Essence of Science in 63 Seconds</title>
		<link>https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13999</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 01:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog post combines Richard Feynman with Wislawa Szymborska.  As a bonus, it also links to Maria Popova&#8217;s Brain Pickings. &#8211;Paul]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gender Gap</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following chart is taken from America&#8217;s Young Adults at 24, a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (via Carpe Diem): According to the 2011 Projections of Education Statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the total number of Ph.D. degrees granted to women first exceeded those granted to men sometime in 2007-2008. Over the next <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13922' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charles Murray</title>
		<link>https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13628</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart: The State of White Amer­ica, 1960-2010, identifies five common myths about white people: Working-class whites are more religious than upper-class whites. Elite colleges are bastions of white upper-middle-class privilege. Marriage is breaking down throughout white America. White working-class men have a strong work <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13628' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Memory of W. B. Yeats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by W. H. Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day. Far from his illness <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13616' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Neutrinos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to Charles Krauthammer &#8212; here &#8212; this joke is circulating the internet: &#8220;We don&#8217;t allow any faster-than-light neutrinos in here,&#8221; says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. The CERN Press Release describes the result as an anomoly &#8212; which indeed it is if the neutrinos arrived in Gran Sasso 60 ns. before leaving <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13432' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Kagan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my deep satisfactions during the past decade has been reading Donald Kagan&#8217;s The Peloponnesian War. I realize that not everyone shares my obsession for Greek his­tory, and it probably makes more sense anyway to start with Thucydides. &#160;But Yale has clearly done a great service in making available the lecture videos for Donald <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13318' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Walter Russell Mead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Walter Russell Mead is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Hu­man­i&#173;ties at Bard College, and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest.  Mead, the son of an Episcopal priest, was educated at Groton, which he calls &#8220;Pundit High&#8221;, and Yale, where he still teaches International Security Studies. From 2003 until 2010 Mead was the Henry <a href='https://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=13212' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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