February 2012
6 posts
What did people do in a Medieval City? →
Favorite occupations: arbalestier, silk-snatcher, thimblerigger, costermonger, shipchandler.
National Subjects By Aleksandar Hemon →
Ethnic identity training in Bosnia and Herzegovina begins in the classroom.
The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women’s... →
However you look at it, there is a great deal going on in the nation’s capital in the name of children. Who knows what will happen next. But whether or not Title X is repealed, or Planned Parenthood is defunded, it won’t be because anyone in Congress has had a candid, compassionate, and thoughtful conversation about anybody else’s constitutional rights.
January 2012
39 posts
These Mammals Pack a Toxic Punch →
The evolutionarily stinky
“In fact the pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 24 January 1922
When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue →
Paris Review Essay by Édouard Levé
The Devil’s Trumpet →
The Salem witch trials and the imperfect science of history.
Three Recipes by Edward Lear, Nonsensist →
Amblongus Pie, Crumbobblious Cutlets and Gosky Patties.
Driving Through Time →
The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Crowd-Sourcing American History - Ta-Nehisi Coates →
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would...”
– Waging Nonviolence
Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of Afro... →
Homemade Tonic Water Recipe - Imbibe Magazine →
The Economic and Political Impact of Immigrants,... →
Survey Finds Rising Perception of Class Tension →
Conflict between rich and poor now eclipses racial strain and friction between immigrants and the native-born as the greatest source of tension in American society, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Buying the Body of Christ →
How the communion wafer arrived in the capitalist marketplace.
“Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year.
To...”
– Virginia Woolf’s New Year’s resolutions, January 2, 1931
Citizenship: In praise of a second (or third)... →
A Year in Reading — and Scribbling →
NY Times critic’s year in marginalia
December 2011
31 posts
Southern Farmers Vanquish the Clichés →
