Unwelcome Home

You Weren’t Serious When You Said

God Is in the Details

Skyping Brazil

On the pleasure of a virtual dissertation defense

Krazy

Read an excerpt from Michael Tisserand’s new biography of George Herriman

Neighborhood Haunts, Part 2

“We Must Not Be Enemies”

Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter

Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China

The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy

Full Steam Ahead

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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