Seeking Europe: A Wild Goose Chase

As we learn from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a "wild-goose chase” is a hopeless quest for something unattainable. It is a fitting metaphor for an Eastern European quest for Europe that no longer exists. (Continue...)

William Shakespeare’s prophetic words

William Shakespeare is usually celebrated as the author of great tragedies, comedies and historical chronicles. Yet his sonnets reveal Shakespeare as a poet and as a thinker who found a perfect form for his wit and breadth of his thought. (Continue...)

Reclaiming a Sense of Meaning

We are living in an era that is rushed, short on time, and generally accelerated. How best to describe it? Haste. Constant bustle. Multitasking. We lack time for ourselves, for cherished friends and beloved books, and for enjoying life’s simple pleasures. (Continue...)

Great Baltic profiles: Two stories

Born on September 11, 1935, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is one of the most illustrious creators of contemporary academic music. Born on January 9, 1928, Irena Veisaitė is a person through whose incredible life story we could write the history of the twentieth century. (Continue...)

A theory of self and human existence

A review of Initiation and preservation: Modes of cultural philosophy By: Arūnas Sverdiolas. (Continue...)

How to Reclaim a Sense of Meaning Amid Meaninglessness

We are living in an era that is rushed, short on time, and generally accelerated. How best to describe it? Haste. Constant bustle. Multitasking. We lack time for ourselves, for cherished friends and beloved books, and for enjoying life’s simple pleasures. (Continue...)

Jazz, Memory, and Freedom: Three Little Stories

When as a student I heard Arsenal, the jazz rock band of the Kaliningrad Philharmonic, I was dumbfounded: in Soviet times Russian musicians were playing music that jazz lovers at once identified as being under the influence of Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tear. (Continue...)