Category: Randomness
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Vapniarka, never forget
From a little-known Romanian concentration camp in what is now Ukrainian territory comes not only the inhumanity of war and nazism, but an inspiring story of human resilience and solidarity.
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Incorruptible
A short essay on rules and what they mean to us
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Corruptible
Who gets power and how it changes us
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The Raven and the mysterious circumstances of Poe’s death
Edgar Allan Poe reinvented “mystery” in literature and influenced thousands with his plutonian art, but nothing has been as poignant as the dark enigma his death comprises.
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Secrets
A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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No one haiku
No one
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The beauty and the beast -Machiavelli’s The Prince
The Prince, a work involved in mystery and extrapolations, that has been mixed and confused with the nature and character of its own creator
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How to win an election
Roman politics was not a game for amateurs, especially in times of dissolution of republican norms, breaking down of democracy and transition to an empire, under the rule of absolute power and despotic will
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How to Rig an Election
The greatest political paradox of our time is this: there are more elections than ever before, and yet the world is becoming less democratic
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Bilbo’s Last Song
Guided by the Lonely Star, beyond the utmost harbour-bar I’ll find the havens fair and free, and beaches of the Starlit Sea