IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 17, No. 3 (Fall 2015) - We Have Never Been Disenchanted -

IASC: The Hedgehog Review - Volume 17, No. 3 (Fall 2015) - We Have Never Been Disenchanted -: The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 17 No. 3 (Fall 2015)
We Have Never Been Disenchanted
Eugene McCarraher
The Hedgehog Review
The Hedgehog Review: Fall 2015

(Volume 17 | Issue 3)

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“Beautiful demon of Money, what an enchanter thou art!”
—Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age

One of the stories modernity tells about itself is titled “The Disenchantment of the World.” Friedrich Schiller coined the phrase while lamenting the demise of the gods of Greek antiquity, but it was Max Weber who turned it into melancholy shorthand for the modern condition of secularity.1

15 Hacks For A Water-Smart Garden - Hobby Farms

15 Hacks For A Water-Smart Garden - Hobby Farms: January 18, 2016

Drought is a cyclical part of life in the American West, and water conservation—no matter where you live—should be an ongoing concern of every savvy gardener. A well-designed, water-wise landscape that incorporates H2O-saving devices and techniques can still be a lush and inviting place without the water waste. Here are 15 tips to get you through the summer with minimal irrigation.

ANC not arrogant, self-serving, says Ramaphosa | IOL

ANC not arrogant, self-serving, says Ramaphosa | IOL: African National Congress deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said, unlike what many South Africans think, his party was not an arrogant, self-serving political organisation.

“The ANC, as opposed to what many people may believe, they think we are arrogant, self-centered, self-serving and I would like like to dispute all that by saying we are a listening organisation,” Ramaphosa told a scrum of reporters at the ANC desk in the IEC’s results operations centre in Tshwane.

Email Marketing for Authors: Best practices for building, managing and measuring your email list - Written Word Media

Email Marketing for Authors: Best practices for building, managing and measuring your email list - Written Word Media: Back in our 10 Trends in Publishing Every Indie Author Needs to Know post this past January, we talked about the importance of email marketing for authors. That trend has stayed true throughout the first half of the year, and email marketing remains one of the most effective tactics for driving book sales. Are you ready to join in on the trend? Keep reading for a primer on email marketing for authors, and learn how you can use it as an effective tool to sell more books.

Slobodan Milosevic, 64, Former Yugoslav Leader Accused of War Crimes, Dies - The New York Times

Slobodan Milosevic, 64, Former Yugoslav Leader Accused of War Crimes, Dies - The New York Times: As he rose and then clung to power by resurrecting old nationalist grudges and inciting dreams of a Greater Serbia, Mr. Milosevic became the prime engineer of wars that pitted his fellow Serbs against the Slovenes, the Croats, the Bosnians, the Albanians of Kosovo and ultimately the combined forces of the entire NATO alliance.

By stirring a dormant but incendiary nationalism, he succeeded in rallying support for himself in the late 1980's, at a time when Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe was in its death throes.

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