Sunday, August 20, 2017
Smarty Pants Podcast
Lady Pirates and Oceans of Plastic
One very daring journey and the pirate who puts Blackbeard to shame
Stephanie Bastek
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Our Nuclear Future
We may think the bomb is back, but it never really went away
Jeffrey Lewis
Editors’ Picks
10 Books to Read—And Not a Drop to Drink
Dry salvages that will make you thirsty—part one of our H₂0 reading series
Our Editors
Detroit: Summer of 2017
Thriving and Striving
Introducing our newest Daily Scholar columnist
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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Detroit: Summer of 2017 Fridays
The changing face of Motor City
The Little Aquarium That Could
Like Detroit, a tale of rise and fall and rise again
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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Measure by Measure Thursdays
Schubert Everlasting
Sviatoslav Richter and a music like no other
Sudip Bose
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View from Rue Saint-Georges Wednesdays
What Do You Owe a Stranger?
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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WISE TO THE WORDS
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Our Nuclear Future
We may think the bomb is back, but it never really went away
Jeffrey Lewis
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Dishonorable Behavior
The scourge of military sexual assault and the warrior’s masculine code
Elizabeth D. Samet
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Waking From the Dream
Most Americans assume society is more egalitarian than it is
Nancy Isenberg
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Reading Thoreau at 200
Why is the seminal work of the great American transcendentalist held in such scorn today?
William Howarth
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
One Road
By Donald Hall
Now that it’s August, everyone seems to be on vacation. But if you’re still at the office—or someplace you’d rather not be—read Donald Hall’s essay from our Spring 2013 issue to satisfy your wanderlust: a remembrance of the poet’s honeymoon journey from England to Greece, through the backroads of postwar Yugoslavia.
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American Eclipse
By David Baron
An illuminating exploration of the nation’s race to catch a Wild West eclipse
