Given the short time they had to develop the shot, however, the data only included information on the safety and efficacy of the booster in animals. Human studies are planned and will be ongoing even if the FDA and CDC decide to authorize …

Offers came in from American and British forces to evacuate the President and his team. The idea was to help them set up a government in exile, most likely in eastern Poland, that could continue to lead from afar. None of Zelensky’s advise…

Can one write the history of art 'up to the present day' as one can perhaps write the history of airplanes? Many critics and teachers hope and believe that one can. I am less sure. True, one can record and discuss the latest fashions, the …

Nobody ever believed the pandemic would go easy on children. The virus might target them less directly than it targets older people, but other challenges—the loss of school, the loss of play, the loss of time with friends—would exact their…

If art were merely a record of the appearances of nature, the closest imitation would be the most satisfactory work of art, and the time would be fast approaching when photography should replace painting. But as a matter of fact not even a…

Confusion about what it means to "own" a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type―a respect for the physical thing―the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible fo…

There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes onl…

My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women. I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or team w…

Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty. Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon …

To ponder interminably over the reason for one’s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and h…

I do not believe we can have any freedom at all in the philosophical sense, for we act not only under external compulsion but also by inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying— “A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine…

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more qui…

Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been…

The fact is that very few travelers really like travelling. If they go to the trouble and expense of travelling, it is not so much from curiosity for fun, or because they like to see things beautiful and strange, as out of a kind of snobbe…

Some people travel on business, some in search of health. But it is neither the sickly nor the man of affairs who fill the Grand Hotels and the pockets of their owners. It is those who travel ‘for pleasure’ as the phrase goes. What Epicuru…

So no man who knows what friendship is ever gave up a friend because he turns out to be disreputable. His only reason for giving up a friend is that he has ceased to care for him; and, when that happens, he should reproach himself for this…

Friendship is above reason, for, though you find virtues in a friend, he was your friend before you found them. It is a gift that we offer because we must; to give it as the reward of virtue would be to set a price upon it, and those who d…

Today, however, this type of nuclear family seems to be undergoing a metamorphosis. As the number of children declines and the number of mothers with small children who go out to work grows rapidly, the separate economic preoccupations of …

When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, Germany woke up to an unpleasant reality: Russia is its top energy supplier, providing more than half of its natural gas and coal supplies and a third of its crude oil.…

The pleasures of childhood should in the main be such as the child extracts from his environment by means of some effort and inventiveness. Pleasures which are exciting and at the same time involve no physical exertion, such, for example, …

The capacity to endure a more or less monotonous life is one which should be acquired in childhood. Modern parents are greatly to blame in this respect; they provide their children with far too many passive amusements, such as shows and go…

If the pandemic unfolded in stages so too must it be contained that way. During the campaign, Biden promised swift action on such steps as testing, vaccine manufacture and distribution, and preventive measures like mask mandates. That, he’…

Every pandemic starts as a squall—a localized disturbance in a single city or town, causing all manner of problems there, but sparing the larger world outside. Squalls become storms, however, and storms become tempests and before long the …

It’s all too easy to become numb to the toll and accept these daily figures as a new normal while waiting for the vaccine rollout to have an impact. Since the first vaccines were approved in Dec. 2020, we seem to have stopped talking about…

On Jan. 7, 2021, the U.S. hit another grim milestone, for the first time recording over 300,000 new cases of COVID-19 and over 4,000 deaths from the infection in one day. Across the country, hospitals and intensive care units are now under…

Japanese teachers placed importance on "student effort," while non-Japanese focused more on "communication." The greatest divergence was seen in how teachers elicit answers from students. While non-Japanese tend to choose students who rais…

Like other animals, man also reacts badly to overcrowding. Although in advanced civilization, the packing together of people in cities does not necessarily lead to a shortage of food, there may be detected some traces of the aggressiveness…

Those who have not had the benefit of such direct experiences have either accepted or rejected the 'evidence' of those who have as a matter of personal preference ― acceptance, of course, being an act of faith rather than of reason. The ch…

Broadly speaking, attempts to answer fundamental questions dealing with the creation of the universe and the creation of life have, throughout recorded history, been of two kinds — the physical and the metaphysical.The metaphysical approac…

“Resilience includes the ability to withstand and recover rapidly from deliberate attacks, accidents, natural disasters, as well as unconventional stresses, shocks, and threats to our economy and democratic system,” the report states. “Thr…