The work of American archaeologist Mary Settegast (1934-2020) shows how many of the contradictions and controversies that arise from archaeological […]
Category: Old in New Light
The Age of Ignorabimus: Its Humble Beginning and Chaotic End
A renewal is taking place in science, an untelevised one. Tension has been building in recent years regarding the ‘puzzle’ […]
The Fearless Bookseller
Three centuries ago, in 1721, a 21-year-old young man named Johannes van Septeren established a publishing house and bookselling business […]
The Future Critic
Future Critics do not exist yet. They arrive at doorsteps, email inboxes or soapboxes at very specific moments. Those moments […]
Against His Time
There exists an English 1960 translation of Rudolf Steiner’s 1895 book about Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom’. […]
The Lowest Heaven
Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, […]
Kant’s Cave
Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people […]
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, […]
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest […]
Old Wild Horses
All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one […]
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
On Action in the Face of Destruction I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ Bob Dylan, A Hard […]
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on […]
New Words
The beauty of language is that it can’t be stripped of its human, unpredictable, flawed, emotional, dynamic, local, temporary and […]