A shorter version of what’s written below was published on Friday, August 14 in The New York Times, as a comment to This is Where I Stand, the opinion column from David Brooks: Thanks to President Barack Obama and two recent columns in The New York Times, I’m wondering if we aren’t finding (at last) a framework for how we …
Celebrating the Elephants
Much of what we hear about the elephants is not good news. The dwindling numbers (in just about all species), the poaching, the agreements – sometimes observed and sometimes not – about hunting. Then there was the report in early July of the mysterious (and not poaching-related) deaths of some 356 elephants in Botswana. Let’s …
Vienna’s Otto-Wagner-Spital: A Disturbing Story
Before I conclude my own personal homage to Vienna’s most famous architect (coming in a few weeks when I write about Otto Wagner’s stunning Österreichische Postsparkasse) I want to look again at the Otto-Wagner-Spital which we visited a few days back. In the previous post, I made reference to the fact that the Otto Wagner Hospital in …
Opera: Vienna: Otto-Wagner-Spital / Klinik Penzing and The “Parsifal” Connection
Let’s have another look at the beautiful site where Otto Wagner’s stunning Kirche am Steinhof is located. It’s an iconic Art Nouveau structure I’ve written about before (last December in fact), and many readers commented positively when I described Wagner’s church, located at the top of the hill overlooking the district. So I’m now happy to …
The Pandemic from an Academic Perspective
In these difficult times, it’s easy to fall into a trap, thinking about what’s happening as if it’s happening just in our own community or workplace. But isn’t there value in looking at the broader picture? Of course we’re reading the local newspapers, and some of us even try to catch up with what’s happening …
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