By the way, if anyone thinks this choice of background could have been coincidental, the fact that MO is posing with Jefferson would be virtually inescapable to her (and might explain the rest of the composition, especially her awkward orientation to the drapes).
Portfolios are very much about graphics you need to get people's attention before you can explain the rest of your work.
But Holbach is not a naturalist in the stricter sense of attempting to understand human beings in terms of the same laws that explain the rest of nature.
We'll let him explain the rest of what you're looking at.
And the fight for public sanity has fallen to average citizens, like Professor Sbenaty, who is still trying to explain to the rest of the world what happened in his community.
It's far from obvious why a bigger Iranian stockpile of low-enriched uranium than exists today is a clear and present danger to humanity, but those that claim that it is have a responsibility to explain to the rest of us why they are so adamant in dismissing the only realistic option on the table for doing something about it.
This approach may massage the prejudices of blue-state secularists, but it does little to explain to the rest of us a country that — like James himself — somehow manages to be both resolutely religious and staunchly secular at the same time.
The main difference has been that Mr. Nunn asked each performer to explain to the rest of the company 24 hours in the life of the farmer, cowman, housewife or whomever he or she is playing.
Against this backdrop, and the looming threat of violence between supporters and opponents of the Islamist president elected one year ago, several Egyptian democracy activists have been trying to explain to the rest of the world how Mr. Morsi lost the support of the population in the past year.
