Tag: history
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Born 150 years ago, Carl Jung drew on mythology and personal experience to create a visionary body of work, resonant in a disenchanted age. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/jungs-map-of-the-soul/ more ›
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Psychedelics such as MDMA, LSD, psilocybin (another compound found in magic mushrooms) and ketamine have been gaining attention in the Western world as a possible way to tackle burgeoning mental health… more ›
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As Chinese immigration to California accelerated across the 19th century, the hairstyle known as the queue — a long, braided pony tail — became the subject of white Americans’ fascination,… more ›
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Russia is a Near Eastern country now subordinated to East Asia, but historically it has prospered most when tied closely to Europe. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/where-is-russias-place-in-the-world/ more ›
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Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation more ›
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Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/andy-beckett/an-efficient-man more ›
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This June, Christie’s offers one of the most important collections of daguerreotypes to come to market in the past 25 years. Announced to the world in 1839 and born of… more ›