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Ben O’Donnell
I have recently worked as a traveling wine correspondent for the Francis Ford Coppola blog knoWine.com, as well as at the Hood Museum of Art in New Hampshire and the literary magazine The Paris Review. I am now a freelance (unemployed) writer. I am interested in classical cultures, classical art and architecture, classic literature, classical, rock, and rap music, but not so much rock-rap or rap-classical.
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Race and IQ tests are two nebulous determinants of nebulous qualities that have incited fractious and controversial reactions as long as they have existed. Many studies of the correlation between […]
In a recent editorial for the Wall Street Journal, author of the Bush-era “torture memos” John Yoo warns against Obama’s closing of Guantanamo and effort to stamp out Geneva-unfriendly interrogation […]
For decades, the average Indian citizen could vote for the governmental representatives of his choosing and then follow their foibles in the news—and that’s where his access to government ended. […]
In the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon interviewed philosopher J. D. Trout about empathy.During the course of a rather hostile interview, Trout invoked the image of the Roman […]
It’s been a busy birthday week between Robert Burns (250 years young), Wilmer Valderrama (29), and the Iranian Revolution (30).But lest you forgot to mark your calendar amid all the […]
Having successfully built itself into a global center of the Hello Kitty trade, Hong Kong is setting its sights on a still greater conquest: the wine world. Dominated by the […]