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Renowned French philosopher Henry Bergson was a leading Western thinker who challenged the notion that all occurrences can be explained by rationalism, scientific determinism, a priori reasoning, or “frozen doctrines.” He stressed instead the importance of intuition and instincts in…
In a stunningly oblivious moment earlier this week, former secretary of state and retired four-star U.S. Army General Colin Powell criticized Republicans for assisting the president and covering up his mistakes, and contrasted their behavior with how officials acted in…
While Brits aren’t yet storming Dover’s docks to push crates of French wine into the English Channel, I’m struck by how the Brexit melee has increasingly exhibited characteristics of America’s Revolutionary War. You’ve got the pushback against an out-of-touch authority…
The obituarists of Jessye Norman have said it all. And probably all of it is accurate. She had one of the greatest voices of any classical singer in the post-war epoch. She mastered an astonishing variety of repertoire from the…
During a layover on a recent trip, I was browsing the paperbacks and magazines at one of the outlandishly overpriced bodegas that one finds in any airport in America nowadays. Apart from the usual glut of faux-angsty pulp novels and…
In the 2017 film Roman J. Israel, Esq., Denzel Washington plays a civil rights veteran, who, while giving a speech to a group of young progressive activists, sees two black women without seats. “I’m sorry, excuse me. I see two…
