This post by Cultural Offering about helping your small local businesses get through this hard time is very important.
My wife and I are going out of our way to continue to support the restaurants and shops that are important parts of our life.
We are tipping even more generously than usual (and that's saying something since the staff starts dancing whenever my wife walks in the door).
Amid all of the hunkering down, let's do what we can.
[Photo Tim Mossholder by at Unsplash]
Fortunately, my local deli has a take-out window.
The Sovereign Professional recommends.
I strongly agree.
Spent part of my breakfast reading time looking for the location of Corcyra. [Its location was a shock, given its distance from Corinth and Athens.]
The other part was regretting that I didn't read Thucydides in high school. The eloquent arguments made in Athens by the emissaries of Corcyra and Corinth should be studied in law school.
This also sparked a recollection of what historian Alan Bullock wrote in Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives:
"Looking back, I cannot think of a better preparation for writing about Hitler and Stalin than a close study of Thucydides, Tacitus, and those sections of Aristotle's Politics that deal with the Greek experience of tyranny."
Fast Company explores a legal concept that is surfacing more and more nowadays.
[Photo by NASA at Unsplash]
City Journal: Peter Kolchinsky on a coronvirus vaccine that will work.
A good description of this is in The Paris Review.
