Word: traditionalizing
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At first sight, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy would seem to continue the Anglo-French tradition of coming from different planets. Sarkozy, who won an easy victory in the French presidential runoff election on May 6, is the son of a capricious Hungarian émigré aristocrat. A mediocre student...
These are early days, of course, and even the biggest euro-optimists aren't yet talking about a new spirit of entente. The two men know one another from Sarkozy's stint as French Finance Minister in 2004; they met regularly at E.U. ministerial meetings in Brussels. Aides say they...
We spend our lives "engaged in small talk, focusing on the known," while Black Swans-- dramatic, unpredictable events--shape the course of history, says mathematical investor turned philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Sept. 11, World War I and the Wall Street crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is...
But those parodies had a dominant fairy-tale tradition to rebel against. The strange side effect of today's meta-stories is that kids get exposed to the parodies before, or instead of, the originals. My two sons (ages 2 and 5) love The Three Pigs, a storybook by David...
When an article I wrote for The Harvard Salient on Iranian President Mohammad Khatemi’s continuation of blatant human rights abuses against women and homosexuals was edited to refer to homosexuals as “sodomites,” I wondered, “What on earth are...