Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

This may be the best fake holiday since Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Saturday, December 8th has been declared “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day.”  The whole idea is to pretend for the day that you are a traveler from a different time – except that, of course, you can’t actually *tell* people you’re a [...]

Nobel Lecture

From the 2007 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Doris Lessing. (h/t Opinio Juris)
We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and where it is common for young men and women who have had years of education, to know nothing about the world, to have read nothing, [...]