by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 5, 2021 | Commentaries
“I am not what I am”, Iago proclaimed in Shakespeare’s Othello, and I am also thinking of similar lines proclaimed by Arthur Dimmesdale in Scarlet Letter, Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina in Tolstoy’s...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 29, 2020 | Commentaries
The end-of-the-year special flight has been a highlight for me for the last eight years since it’s not only a learning and entertaining experience, but also has served as an inspiration for the forthcoming year. Obviously, the question had been if, due to Covid-19,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 15, 2020 | Commentaries
Is our desire to assess and “predict” the future a reflection of what is known for thousands of years now as being “partakers of the divine nature”? I started my weekend reading on that subject by reviewing writings by Gregory of Nyssa, John Wesley, and Karl...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 2, 2020 | Commentaries
Can we truly live and invest heroically? Can we truly stare into the abyss of pain, despair, and disaster and somehow draw strength from those encounters? Could we contemplate on the fragility and uncertainty of our lives and portfolios and summon the will to...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 24, 2020 | Commentaries
Why Villa Diodati? Two famous manuscripts were drafted there: The Modern Promethus (a.k.a. Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, and The Vampyre by Lord Byron and Polidori. After all, the villa is not far from Geneva, the intellectual birthplace of the most famous...