February 2022
Trigger Warning: Trauma
The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority. The solace of its simplicity comes at no little cost...
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After Literacy
The idea that each of us has a singular voice, and that it places a stamp of authorship on our compositions, is of course corollary to the prohibition on plagiarism...
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Charles Rearick in Popular Paris
Paris has long been the most visited city in Europe, but most of it is not visited. Why not?
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Bird’s Delight
Almost everything we know about medieval culture is written on the skins of dead animals...
Read MoreSamuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein
Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic...
Read MoreThere are two branches of activism…
The funding has a way of managing the direction and even the leadership of these movements, and Black Lives Matter is no different...
Read MoreSurveillance Advertising Space
Clinton’s ‘New Democrats’ were eager to partner up with the private sector to draft the first comprehensive set of internet policies...
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How did Barbara Tuchman alter history?
President John F. Kennedy read The Guns of August shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis began...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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