Category: Politics and Society
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“The Woman At Front Two”
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The woman at table Front Two does not look happy. This seems wildly unfair, given that she is…
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Prisoners in the museum
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The classical Greek conception of the afterlife was not a particularly attractive one. In Homer’s universe, the vast…
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A Likely Story
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We all have our own sacred cows, ideas that are so deeply embedded in our psyches that we…
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Paddling Point Nemo
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Any time you have more than one person in a room, you’re going to have differences. Despite these…
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Really and truly.
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Voltaire pointed out in 1733 that “The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof…
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Elaine, let’s get the hell out of here.
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Elaine de Kooning once recalled a party where she and another painter, Joan Mitchell, were asked, “What do…
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A mess of gooey, gluey, goodness.
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We turn to memes and tweets, chewy little mouthfuls of snark, savoring the ones that appeal to us,…
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What rough beast?
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Unfortunately, the machinery of governance was big and spooky and dangerous and the only people who knew which…
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