Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War
…Vienna and his main expertise is in 20th Century Eastern Europe. He claims to speak five European languages and read ten. He gave lectures in Ukrainian [not exactly a lingua…
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Guest Post: “An Expanded Vision of ‘Western Heritage’: Why It Matters for Education”
…substrate, indicating coexistence of the languages long before Hurro-Urartian became extinct. I personally suspect that the Armenians are descended from the traders on the Transcaucasian route between the Steppes and…
The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time
…lines, transcended the divisive nature of ethnic boundaries, and even provided a basis for compatible interaction between groups speaking different languages. Gerontocracy was in fact a unifying characteristic of sub-Saharan…
Some Thoughts About ‘Identities’
…Africa, for example, or Papua, New Guinea, with its 750 languages. And all too often, the majority ethnicity within a political nation-state starts to identify itself specifically with that state;…
Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama
…[of my ‘five kingdoms’, only two—the family and manners/customs/languages—are not dominated by Organizations]. I understand that an absolute ‘Rule of Law and not of humans’ [to phrase it in a…
Merry Christmas [All Three of Them]
…arms race. Some of you may not know what a ‘Potlatch’ is. The word comes from one of the Pacific Northwest Indian languages. We are informed that “A potlatch involves…
A Croatia Travelogue
…a place where the Glagolitic alphabet, the one that Cyril and Methodius actually did invent for the Slavic languages, was used. The alphabet called ‘Cyrillic’ was not invented by them…
Why We Need Regionalism
…and we should also embrace you. In fact, I fancy putting posters of Jeremiah 29:7 in Spanish [and maybe other languages] all around the areas where they could be understood….
Which Western Civilization? We’re on our Third One.
…receded, Christianity began to flourish, including Protestantism, Catholicism, and especially the new form of Christianity called Pentecostalism, which had originated in 1906. Many languages, not already written, were translated into…
What Umlaut Really Is, And How English Has It
Most people think an umlaut is the two dots over a letter that you often see in German and some other languages. A number of Anglophone rock bands have decorated…