Tag: Hobsbawm

Red October, continued*

"At Cambridge, where he studied in the 30s, he had a reputation for omniscience. Running the local Communist party cell from the set of college rooms beneath Wittgenstein's, the youthful…

Tradition!

"And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word!" — Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof "The object and characteristic of 'traditions,'…

Review

"Self-evidently true and just" — The late Stephen Jay Gould on a book by the late Barry Commoner. Commoner reportedly died on Sunday. Update of 5:42 PM ET—…