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...inconsistency is not hypocrisy. If Jefferson's actions sometimes violated his high and, at times, unrealistic principles, our present-day actions violate some of them too. There isn't much about today's America that its visionary third President wouldn't find troubling, in need of improvement or just plain horrifying. The peaceful republic that Jefferson wished for and did what he could to usher into being--a collection of independent gentleman farmers, moderately prosperous and highly educated, living under a thrifty, modest government that was legally bound not to meddle in their affairs, be they commercial, domestic or religious...
...exhibition is designed to take viewers on a virtual journey along the Silk Road. It begins in the ancient Sogdian capital of Samarkand in present-day Uzbekistan?one of the last of Alexander the Great's conquests before he went south to India?and moves east through the now vanished western kingdoms of Khotan, Kroraina and Miran before ending in China. Over the course of this journey eastward, remarkably well preserved 1,000-year-old manuscripts and icons reveal the growth and evolution of the Silk Road's most illustrious commodity: Buddhism. The merging and morphing of regional beliefs produced...
...Paris, as a purveyor of kitsch and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors include Madonna and Jack Nicholson; two years ago one of her paintings (The Musician, 1929) sold for $2.6 million. To make up your own mind about her, drop in at London's Royal Academy of Arts, which is showing more than 50 of her paintings in the first major exhibition...
...There is no mention of history [and] the mention of foreign cultures is solely in modern terms, so the report has a feeling...of being very engaged with the present-day world but not very engaged with culture, [or] with history in a broader sense,” Ziolkowski said...
...Simon & Schuster; 323 pages), James Chace, former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, points to that year's presidential election--a four-way fight that also involved Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Socialist Eugene Debs--as the event that led to the present-day alignment of the two major parties. Roosevelt's eventual third-party candidacy drew off Republican progressives, leaving the G.O.P. in the hands of its pro-business wing, which rules it still. Although Roosevelt cowed Wilson, by splitting the Republican vote he made a Democratic victory inevitable. But Roosevelt's campaign positions on monopolies also forced Wilson into more...