Comebacks & Underdogs

I was a wrestler in high school. Not the WWE kind, the greco-roman variety. & I was terrible at it. My best friend coaxed me into it in our freshman year by appealing to my competitive nature –we had a long history of friendly rivalry. The first weeks of practice […]

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It’s the Victors Who Write History

I recently read an interesting article by Julia Wolkoff about the reason why so many Egyptian statues & flat reliefs had been desecrated. It’s based on the book written by Brooklyn Museum curator Edward Bleiberg entitled “Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt.” The article calls on the psychology associated  with […]

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