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  1. The Power of Interpreters, or, It depends what your definition of 'is' is...

    Of three ancient thinkers with great impact on history, Kong Fuzi (Confucius), Jesus of Nazareth, and Socrates, we only know them by their disciples. In the case of Confucius, we know him through the Analects compiled by his direct disciples, and through Mencius, who elaborated and explained...

  2. WI: the Republic of Texas survived?

    I was up late the other night, blown out of my mind on caffeine and sugar, and reading a history of early Texas and the Navajo uprisings against the Spanish. Somehow, this alchemized into "Lawrence of Arizona," sent by the Union boys to encourage the Navajo/Pueblo revolt against the Texans so...

  3. WI: Man of Science, Man of the People

    When President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president, but he declined, stating that he had "neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings."' Suppose the good Dr. Einstein had accepted the invitation? As a German-born Jew...
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