Sounds Like a Revolution

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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The Life Unlived

… are now marooned in space and time. The life we’re still owed or that fate dangles before us and that we project at every turn and feed upon and, like a virus or a suppressed gene, that gets passed on from one day to the other, from person to person, from one generation to …

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Homebodies

… Katcher suggested that pet keeping, like gardening, restores us to the security of “cyclical time” by engaging us in repetitive activities that sustain life. The responsibility of feeding, exercising, and grooming a pet increases our mental and emotional equilibrium. The chores we perform for our pets are similar to the labor of the home and …

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The Aftermath

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Fighting the Zika Virus with John Wayne (and John Aubrey)

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Looking Ahead

… be Thanksgiving and the annual community production of the Nutcracker that goes along with a crafts fair in the high school gym. Then there’s the spaghetti feed in the basement of the Elk’s Lodge to benefit needy families, and then the main winter holidays—Christmas is the only one in evidence here—and …

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High Art and Low Chairs

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Ku Klux Kounty

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Holding On to the Banister

When I wake up each morning and go downstairs to feed the cats and get the newspaper from the stoop, I hold on to the banister. I take the steps one at a time, with both feet on each step, because my knees are stiff when I wake up and I feel a slight pressure …

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Weapons of Math Destruction

… a judge’s random guess. But even if we put aside, ever so briefly, the crucial issue of fairness, we find ourselves descending into a pernicious WMD feedback loop. A person who scores as “high risk” is likely to be unemployed and to come from a neigh­borhood where many of his friends and family …

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