The Seneca Effect Blog is returning! You can find it on Substack at this address: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/ After that the origi...

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As a comment to the recent decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, I ...

It is said that the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa wrote this haiku upon the death of his daughter: "The dewdrop world is a dewdrop world...

This image by the Tuscan painter Piero della Francesca exudes such power that it may truly blow your mind. Apart from the mastery of the com...

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"The orator" (l'arringatore), an Etruscan statue probably made during the 1st century BC, presently at the Archaeological Muse...

  Rush Limbaugh has died at 70. Defined as " The most dangerous man in America ," climate science denier, friend of Donald Trump, ...

Originally published on "Cassandra's Legacy " on Sunday, December 7, 2014 ...