And, the fluidity and creative interweaving of class, and gender and racial and sexual and psychological, positions and experiences in the public intellectual life of the English-speaking world in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries

Ukraine celebrated its independence today – independence from the Soviet Union, and before that the Russian Empire – the same oppressor they are resisting today

(and before that, the Ottomans and the Mongols, the Bulgarians and the Slavs, and Greeks and the Romans, the Cimmerians and the Scythians, the Kurgan cultures and the domesticators of the horse, the Gravettian Venus-worshippers, the Aurignations and the Mousterians – oppressors of the people all )

What was it like

for the world, when that first forest-borne monkey ventured out into the African plains, the savannah where they would learn from their fellow creatures in that place, of weather and shelter, of the cycles of the year, of longer history, of new opportunity and of the eating of meat, and of the hunting and the … More What was it like