Jottings from the Granite Studio

Professor Stefan Landsberger, the man behind the brilliant and invaluable Chinese Propaganda Posters Pages, is involved in another excellent online project, this time in collaboration with the International Institute of Social History based in Amsterdam. The site, Chinese Posters, features 167 works from both Stefan’s private collection and that of the Institute. The [...]

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There’s a famous saying, attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Franklin was arguing that there exist higher principles beyond the immediate and that is critical in times of strife not to allow the urgent to vanquish the important.
I’d be hard [...]

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