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...what I see as your own), reading equips its practitioner with the tools of democracy: a sense of curiosity, an ability to imagine beyond one’s own isolated experience, and a respect for language and communication.And I’m not alone in these crazy thoughts! The historian Benedict Anderson postulates that it was the shared sense of the world inspired by the common reading of newspapers that led to the social units that became the various American nations. And Richard Rorty, that intellectual juggernaut, makes a compelling, if slightly idealistic, case that novels, in eliciting sympathy from...
...That the next non-ordained president did not arrive until 1869 indicates the complicated history out of which Memorial Church emerged. Historian Bernard Bailyn discussed these conflicting views of Harvard’s foundation, concluding that “Harvard was founded as an institution from which the leadership of church, state, and trade was expected to emerge, and that leadership, like the community as a whole, was expected to remain deeply and correctly Christian.” Thus, at the very least, it seems clear that Harvard was never simply the Puritan stronghold that a Protestant church...
...Western mosque is fast becoming the site of contestation between the kind of Muslims who espouse the traditional mosque, and those who want to win proportionate space for women," says MIT's Khalidi. "The second generation are the ones demanding, and often getting, that kind of space." Architectural historian Khan estimates that until recently, North American mosques gave only about 15% of their space to women. Over the past five years or so, the space women have access to has increased to at least...
Bill James The baseball historian and statistician has enlightened fans about sabermetrics My nominee is Jim Lehrer. Not only has he been anchor for many years of a news program that actually cultivates respect from its viewers but Lehrer is also the author of many books, including a long series of quiet, dignified and compelling novels...
...Still, Hawkins' theory is one of the more legitimate attempts at a Stonehenge explanation. In the 12th Century, the legend of King Arthur wasn't completely regarded as fiction. In his account of Stonehenge, historian Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that troops tried to move the stones from Ireland to England in order to provide a monument for their war dead. When they couldn't, they enlisted the help of the wizard Merlin to transport the massive stones - some weighing as much as 50 tons - back to Britain before arranging them in the current configuration...