March 2010

‘Did Herodotus invent his story of forced sex among the women of Babylon? Gender researchers think so.’

‘When the Wagner family first saw the picture, their reaction was rather different. “We probably laughed,” Penelope told me…’

Even if the re-enactments end, he’s still Custer

“It struck me that the virtual worlds which I came across were a more modern solution to that same problem: how can we be together when we feel so alone?”

Why the United States might never have come into existence without the help of Haiti

Academics can’t seem to get enough of The Wire

Lessons from honey trap history

‘Mr. Nixon never did anything wrong unless someone else had done something like it first. And all evil disappears if it has a precedent.’

Evangelical Christians and Muslim creationists unite!

Orwell’s Cuppa

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

March 2010

‘Did Herodotus invent his story of forced sex among the women of Babylon? Gender researchers think so.’

I got bugs

Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales propose dual capital layers for Wall Street

Le Fooding: it’s important, it’s a heresy and it’s hard to follow

rrrrrrrrr

“Negative reviews help poetry.”

Chomsky on shifts in global power

(Read ‘The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis’ by Martin Hart-Landsberg)

‘When the Wagner family first saw the picture, their reaction was rather different. “We probably laughed,” Penelope told me…’

Drinking, driving and longing

Even if the re-enactments end, he’s still Custer

“It struck me that the virtual worlds which I came across were a more modern solution to that same problem: how can we be together when we feel so alone?”

Studies on whiteness

Buddhism, Stateside

Why the United States might never have come into existence without the help of Haiti

Academics can’t seem to get enough of The Wire

Lessons from honey trap history

The value of erotic capital

‘Mr. Nixon never did anything wrong unless someone else had done something like it first. And all evil disappears if it has a precedent.’

Evangelical Christians and Muslim creationists unite!

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