Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities in Russia, Iraq and China. He circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys.
The Architecture of Power Look at what human beings build when they want power to become visible. The Great Imperial Crown of Russia almost doesn’t look real. Made for the coronation of Catherine the Great in 1762, it contains 4,936 diamonds weighing 2,858 carats, 75 enormous pearls,...
I’m not an academic. I failed college twice—once spectacularly. That doesn’t mean I stopped learning. Quite the opposite. No university I encountered could feed my curiosity fast enough. My mind has always behaved less like a curriculum than a burglary: find the locked door, figure out what’...
