From Inside the Widening Gyre

Title adapted from the first line in the poem, "The Second Coming," by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. It refers to a diagram, received in a vision, composed of two conic helixes ("gyres"), one inside the other. Yeats claimed this image captured the contrary motions inherent in world history (dialectics?). He believed in 1921 that the world was on the threshold of an apocalyptic moment, as history reached the end of the outer gyre and began moving along the inner gyre...

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02 March 2011

Peace Corps at 50

Yesterday, March 1st, was the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps. In honor of that event, I was asked to write an essay about my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer and how it affected my life. The essay "Peace Corps: A Life Changing Experience" was published here on the Britannica Blog.