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The Care and Feeding of Prince George
Josie Glausiusz is on hiatus and will return next week. This week, we return to one of her previous On Science essays.
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013, with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge …
Read MoreCare and Feeding of Prince George
Watching Kate and William emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23 with their little princeling, I couldn’t help feeling moved. The young Duke and Duchess of Cambridge looked happy, describing themselves, in Kate’s words, as “very emotional … any parent probably sort of knows what this feeling feels like.” Their …
Read MoreLet Us Compare Mythologies
… Addison Bates, Eden Daniel, Mary James, Libby Drumm, Roger Porter, Jan Mieszkowski, Pancho Savery, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Peter Steinberger, Nathalia King, Kritish Rajbhandari, Nigel Nicholson, and Albert Kerelis.
Produced and hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Original music by Rhae Royal. Audio storytelling consulting by Mickey Capper.
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Stereotypes and the City
… people in trying to unpack the riddle of race relations in our society. Hollywood was no exception—celebrities joined protests and posted black squares on their Instagram feeds to show solidarity with the movement; industry executives apologized for past missteps and pledged to change. In other words, the media landscape that AJLT entered was very …
Read MoreInterlude: The Idea of “The West”
… the Classical,” Mac Sweeney and her co-authors examine how classical antiquity is used by 21st-century political actors
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Produced and hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Theme music by Nathan Prillaman. Exploding the Canon returns next week.
The Spirit of ’68
… College Library.
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The year 1968 is remembered as tumultuous for many reasons: the assassination of Martin Luther King …
Reedies Against Racism
… KOIN News.
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On September 26, 2016, a group of Black students at Reed College staged a boycott of …
Sing, Muse
… Reed College documentary audio from Give Up Steam (1991) by Daniel Levin. Newsreel commentators: Michael Jones and Jennifer Kabbany.
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A few years ago, I was surprised to see my alma mater making headlines—a lot …
The Redoubtable Bull Shark
… shoreline. A light breeze blew across the flat, creating a slight ripple on the water, enough to offer some cover to any fish that might have been feeding in the shallows. Just ahead, between me and the open ocean, I could see the color transition of the water as the flat fell away into a …
Read MoreOur Pets, Our Plates
… equine autobiography became the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of animal protection.
Early on, activists fought against individual, intimate cruelties: a horse whipped to exhaustion, a mother cat mourning her drowned kittens. But after the Civil War, America’s human population doubled in 35 years to 70 million, and feeding the hungry cities meant animal suffering