Alejandro Jenkins

A Few Words On Beauty

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There's a wonderful "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip where Calvin wakes up in the middle of the night and calls

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Reading Gnter Grass's recent Nobel Lecture I was struck by two things: it's rather disjointed--like it was written in a

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A Harvard instructor of my acquaintance tells a good anecdote about the contrast between the American and the European educational

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Today's State Opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom once again showcases that very British taste for traditional formalities. The

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In Flaubert's last novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet , two middle-aged copyists come into an inheritance and move to the countryside

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In Sylvie and Bruno, one of the lesser-known works by the author of Alice in Wonderland, Bruno tells Sylvie that

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People have remarked that for me conversation is largely an excuse to quote "The Simpsons". Those who make it past

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T hese days few ethical tenets go unchallenged by a world increasingly suspicious of absolutes. Yet in contemporary Western culture,