The 11th Commandment
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February 1, 2004July 26, 2022Reviews

The 11th Commandment

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The Geography of Thought is an exercise in cultural polarization that makes two basic claims: There are profound cognitive differences between Westerners and Asians; and these differences have maintained themselves with striking continuity for thousands of years.  Richard Nisbett, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, locates the two utterly different modes of thought...

Only a Madman Laughs at the Culture of Others
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September 1, 2003July 26, 2022View

Only a Madman Laughs at the Culture of Others

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The opening sentence of Herodotus’ Histories, which recount the wars fought between Greece and Persia in the early fifth century B.C., unrolls like a long musical phrase rising to its Homeric crescendo and then dying away into momentary quiet: Herodotus of Halicarnassus here publishes the results of his research, in order that the actions performed...