Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Rebecca Beachy reimagined a copper coal hod in the shape of a globe to link past and present material trajectories of progress that emerged from the devastation of the great Chicago fire. On its surface, she has drawn a star-map of the fateful night of October 8, 1871.

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Rebecca Beachy's 'Mercury's Hearth: Coal, Electricity, Fire and Industry', 2024 is one of the fourteen works featured in 'Materialities', the exhibition I have curated for the Driehaus Museum in Chicago. Come visit!

Astrologers—I’m looking for one text or article that introduces astrology succinctly and somewhat academically to an unfamiliar audience. What is your top choice?

This is the most insightful presentation I’ve attended in a long time. She would not call it astrology but their work synchronizes perfectly. youtu.be/lfM-Aab-27U?...