Yes, it’s one of the things you’re not supposed to talk about; religion, politics, and the great pumpkin. But it’s gonna come up, and then we’ll have enlightened discussion.
This week, Expedictionary’s Quote of the Fortnight returns, this time with a quote from Robert Graves’ classic I, Claudius. The book, a fictionalized autobiography of Emperor Claudius’ life and the story of […]
The ‘Quote of the Fortnight’ returns, with this passage from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Emperor of Rome from 161 A.D. to 180 A.D., Aurelius wrote this self-help book on the battlefield along […]
Over the summer, I worked at an urban planning think tank in Trenton, NJ called New Jersey Future, which advises the State of New Jersey in areas of public policy. For […]
After a brief break, the Quote of the Fortnight is back! This week’s quote is a speech from William Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” the first play in the so-called “Henriad,” the […]
I have written a piece for Affairs Today on how the Amtrak crash exposes political divides in high-speed rail projects – check it out here: http://affairstoday.co.uk/the-amtrak-crash-politics-and-high-speed-rails-in-the-u-s/
This week’s Quote of the Fortnight concerns a line from John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” a foundational text that laid the foundation for American republican democracy. A proponent of […]
This week’s quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Experience.” This excerpt discusses the phenomenon of novelty and the disappointment a child has when he reads something for the second time […]
I write for a Britain-based student news journal, Affairs Today. As part of my work for the publication, I recently wrote an op-ed comparing the similar trajectories of both Barack […]
I write for a Britain-based student news journal, Affairs Today. As part of my work for the publication, I recently wrote a response to William Deresiewicz’s article in The New […]
Prospect House* My latest article in “Brick by Brick,” the Princeton campus architectural history series, is about Prospect House and its garden. At one point the summer retreat of plantation […]
