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Wanting it both ways
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Western civilization at the crossroads: IX
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On reasons to be pessimistic and optimistic about the future of Western civilization.
Living the “Satyricon”
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The many Donatellos
On “Donatello: The Renaissance” at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello, Florence.
The plague of “mind-working”
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