October 2021

Culture wars present us with an unflattering mirror: whether we take part in them or not, they can easily make us seem either pathetic or buck-passing...

Lugosi not only acts in Wood’s movies and gives each scene his all—at one point he jumps into the water to wrestle a broken mechanical octopus—but also encourages Wood’s belief in their vocation...

A house down around the block is getting a new roof, hammers echoing like giant flickers. Since the big virus outbreak...

Encouraging black people to see themselves as perpetual victims, while assigning to white people the task of becoming enlightened enough to recognize their own inherent and irredeemable racism creates a culture of soft-bigotry...

Affiliation is a geography of bleeding boundaries and abrupt junctures...

I was twenty years and thirty days old when that bomb went off in downtown Bogotá...

Twenty years ago a prophetic Onion article reported that the Dinty Moore soup company took a firm stand against terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11. Today this is no longer satire...

Falconry was, by then, a common pursuit. Having been introduced to Europe from Central Asia or the Near East, it had been practised at least since the ninth century...

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This small stone man shows the fathomless silent darkness in our past. He is the wordless night...

Deep inside the fractured forests that still ring the mountain, a hallowed sense of wonder persists...

The principal shift in the transition from German to French theory is the abandonment of any ethical duty to the biggest picture of all, that of society...

Universities will no longer be dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge but to the promotion of student comfort and the avoidance of social-media attacks...

The most infamous mine in China is Bayan-Obo, the largest REE mine in the world. Even more infamous than the mine itself is the tailing pond it has produced...

Elton John was singing “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues,” and I was belting it out with him...

All men are equal on their holidays: all are free to dream their castles without thought of expense, or skill of architect...