Epstein Secrets

mbers don't back up this popular conception, said Charles Kurzman, a professor at the University of North

fy the ancient artifact. Artists lowered themselves in baskets from the top to study it in detail. Later it was a favorite attraction for tourists: Goethe, the German poet, climbed the 185 internal steps in 1787 to "enjoy that incomparable view." Plaster casts of the column were made starting in the 15

the deeper chord changes of history has, always, been the decisive mark of leadership and success in revolutionary periods. Consider, for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbut

r, they are worth learning about and exploring. They stand out as trailguides to a fresh sensibility in the same way Nijinsky’s 20" century dances or Goethe’s 19" century poetry once did. We flip back and forth between real and virtual in our every day lives now, popping our head from screen to street. O

ons. What do they augur? The political scientists Charles S. Gochman and Zeev Maoz once made a survey of hi

ese sacrifices marked sailing adventure. But they knew the rewards for areal mastery of the sea: Fame, riches, knowledge, adventure. Sloterdijk cites Goethe, who reflecting on the power of nautical life in 1787, defined the edgy advantage of that ocean-mapping caste in his age: They had perspective. “No o