People & culture
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Empire Without Limit: Watch Mary Beard’s TV Series on Ancien…
[ad_1] As the founding myth has it, the city of Rome was established by a man named Romulus, one of two orphaned twin brothers raised by a she-wolf on the banks of the Tiber river. The legend of Romulus and Remus, which involves the former’s fratricidal slaying of the latter, lends itself to striking imagery,…
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The new film about how Putin’s Russia was born
[ad_1] Featuring a much-anticipated performance by Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, this new drama looks to explore how the Russian president came to power – and presents him as mild-mannered. Olivier Assayas’s new drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, which has just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, features Jude Law as the Russian president,…
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Philosophy and the bomb | Eurozine
[ad_1] Blätter observes the eightieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an article by Hans Joas entitled ‘Peace or Freedom?’. In it the social philosopher discusses the ethical and political implications of the age of nuclear weapons through the prism of Karl Jaspers and Günther Anders. Both philosophers…
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Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Acros…
[ad_1] Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam.… Claims to ancient origin and ultimate authority notwithstanding, the world’s five major religions are all of recent vintage compared to the couple hundred thousand years or more of human existence on the planet. During most of our prehistory, religious beliefs and practices were largely localized, confined to the territorial…
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12 of the best TV shows to watch this September
[ad_1] Wayward premieres 25 September on Netflix internationally Apple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+) 11. The Savant Jessica Chastain stars in this timely thriller as Jodie, whose intuitive skills make her excellent at her top-secret job: tracing white supremacists and other hate groups on-line in order to prevent any violent attacks. She should be safely infiltrating the…
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My testament | Eurozine
[ad_1] Growing up as a naive schoolboy in the 1990s, I was surrounded by the Belarusian language and Belarusian culture. My generation had been saturated by a wave of hasty Belarusification, and like many I saw this as something quite normal. We read in our history textbooks and were told in literature lessons about how…
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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Come…
[ad_1] Inferno, Canto X: Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s epic poem the Divine Comedy, but none have made such an indelible stamp on our collective imagination as the Frenchman Gustave Doré. Doré was 23 years old in 1855, when he first decided to create a series of engravings for a deluxe edition…
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Why the new Amanda Knox TV drama is misguided
[ad_1] Another grating element is the way the story is overlaid by the kind of irreverent millennial narration, from Van Patten as Knox, which recalls other recent true-crime dramatisations such as Inventing Anna or Apple Cider Vinegar. In trying to ape the style of these other “lighter” shows, it takes away from the severity of…