Katrina Gulliver
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Anniversary of Isaac Newton’s Birth
On this day in 1643, in the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Isaac Newton entered the world. Although to the people then,…
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Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen, known as the father of modern China, casts a long shadow. He was China’s first post-imperial leader, a…
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Political Remembering and Cultural Forgetting
It’s November 25. If you’d been living in New York more than a century ago, you might have known this…
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Money Makes the World Go ’Round
“Imagine money falling from the sky. Would you slip a tenner into your pocket before you told anyone? Chances are,…
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Spooky Economics
My neighborhood is stalked by 12′ skeletons, huge spiders, and gigantic inflatable cats with rolling eyes and wagging tails. Animatronic…
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Yang Zhu and the Freedom of the Self
Yang Zhu (440–360 BC) was a Chinese philosopher whose ideas were considered daring and transgressive for his time, but can…
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A Case over a Case
A case has been slowly making its way to the Supreme Court hinging on one question: Can the government take…
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Hat Havoc in the Big Apple
On September 15, 1922, Harry Oldbaum was walking near 116th St and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. He was suddenly surrounded…
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How Much Wood?
The lumber market in recent years has been a rollercoaster. For those operating logging businesses, or lumber yards and mills,…
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When Speech Isn’t Free
Free speech is under threat in Britain. Individuals have been arrested and charged for social media posts. The concepts of…
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