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The Arab Kingdom. Amid the chaos of the First World War, a new pan-Arab empire was proclaimed. It faltered, but its historical lessons remain. Adam Mestyan. video. Fairness and equality. To build a fair society, we must first be able to envision it. John Rawls can help. 64 minutes.
Jul 24, 2013 · The cat is not exploring the limits of intimacy with a dash of pain, a touch of S&M. He is involuntarily extending his claws into my skin. This is not about ‘us’, it’s about him, and perhaps it always was — the purring, the licking, the pumping. Cats undermine any dream of perfect togetherness.
Feb 15, 2024 · For ‘Christ myth’ scholars, the Jesus story fits the outlines of the mythic hero archetype. Another is the Egyptian myth of the murdered god-king Osiris. His wife, Isis, finds his body, restores it to life and, via a flash of lightning in one version, conceives his son, Horus, who succeeds him.
Mar 25, 2024 · Syndicate this essay. In July 1917, Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island wrote a short story called ‘Dagon’. ‘If you don’t care for this,’ he wrote to one editor, ‘you won’t care for anything of mine.’. In the tale, a sailor lost at sea in a wooden rowboat finds himself abruptly stranded on a vast stretch of ...
A Libertarian Utopia. At a high-profile Libertarian conference, everyone agrees government should be smaller, but what should replace it is much more contested. Livia Gershon Aeon Apr 2014 15 min. Arts Science Music.
Living closer together. Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable. Society Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore big ideas from history, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology, and more.
May 2, 2024 · In early May 2023, a video surfaced on social media of a mob of young men parading two naked women. With the women’s faces, bosoms and genitalia blurred, the boys could be heard chastising them: ‘Your men raped our women, now we will rape you.’. This happened in Manipur, a state in northeast India. ‘We’ denoted the Meiteis, the ...
