The WSJ journalist and musician was captured and executed by Islamists in Pakistan 12 years ago. Enlightened men and women in 132 countries are taking part in an initiative to sustain the human spirit and destroy the forces that cut short the life of a decent, innocent man.

Read what you can do here. Then do it.

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The last time we saw art like this, Stalin was its centrepiece.

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The resent work by Andrei Budaev shows the giant Putin being lionised by, among other heroes, the genocidal Hafez al-Assad of Syria and the Belarus kleptocrat Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko.

 

Archive film has been released of the day Clara Haskil was admitted to the Légion d’honneur.

Click here to watch the procession of admirers.

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h/t: Frédéric Gaussin

Interesting reflections on the non-death of Sigmund Freud by the president of Wesleyan University. Read here.

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