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In effect the state is missing in action, as the people suffer overlapping crises...

The analysis begins judiciously with the war of 1793-95 and its aftermath...

Hip-Hop Heads: Jeff Alessandrelli Interviews Daniel Levin Becker

I value fun and the sense that a rapper is enjoying their own skill rather than just telling me about it...

Fatty Arbuckle to Rudolf Valentino, Lee Scratch Perry to Bruce Haack

50 Foot Wave to Emmanuelle Parrenin, Pink Mountaintops to Working Men’s Club

40 More Years, 40 More Years?

President Paul Biya is the second longest serving leader in Africa...

There are as many Buddhas as there are atoms...

Nowadays, the charm of a Little Switzerland is not a lofty, aesthetic ideal of Romanticism...

Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence...

Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...

Can the soul stroll?

Leslie Stephen Mountaineering

Nobody can deny that there are serious dangers in Alpine climbing...

You could repeat escapes over the Berlin Wall. Was she really there?

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...