by Martin Newhouse | Feb 11, 2011 | The Public Humanist
“The first rule of writing is not to omit the thing you meant to say.” –Ralph Waldo EmersonToday, as we look back on our history, we are awed by that miraculous confluence of character and brains that coalesced in the Constitutional Convention,...
by Martin Newhouse | Feb 16, 2011 | The Public Humanist
“The light is always identical in its composition, but it falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in it own form, for it is formless, but in theirs; in like manner, thought only appears in the objects it...
by Jim Wald | Feb 18, 2011 | The Public Humanist
In his January 10 post, Patrick Vitalone asked: why do we save historic resources? and which? Citing two cases involving modernist architecture, with whose outcome he disagreed, he furthermore asked whether preservation is “to be an unwavering commitment to any...
by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild | Feb 28, 2011 | The Public Humanist
“What do women want?” Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, asked almost a century ago. On March 6, 1971, a group of women, many affiliated with the women’s liberation group Bread and Roses in Boston, Massachusetts, provided one answer....
by Timothy C. Neumann | Mar 3, 2011 | The Public Humanist
February has been flippantly called “Massacre Month” by some in Old Deerfield. Others have found in the violence of the Attack of February 1704 a promise of sure-fired success at the box office. On March 13, 1910, the Springfield Republican reported Thomas...
