If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more
If Al Franken drawing a map of the United States from memory can’t bring us all together as a nation, + more
I may have mentioned that I’m reading my way through The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro’s (currently) four-volume biography + more
Speaking of music (see yesterday’s post for some of the year’s notable recordings), winners of the 2019–20 Ernst Bacon Memorial + more
I think we can all agree that, by and large, 2020 has sucked wet dog fur. BUT. There’s been some + more
“Rather than a neat evolutionary line,” writes Florence Hazrat, “imagine punctuation developing as a rhizome, a horizontal mesh of practices, + more
Sure, things are weird right now. But it wasn’t all that long ago that they were—arguably, I suppose—even weirder. I’m + more
Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more
According to the fine folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 171,476 English words currently in use. And not + more
From Scientific American, folks: “‘Oumuamua—a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago—might in fact be + more
Before you take this advice seriously, ask yourself one question: Has the federal government ever—and I do mean ever—been right + more
The other day I saw a bumper sticker that read “It’s Not Hard to Be Nice.” At first blush, it’s + more
“All human effort beyond the lowest level of the struggle for animal subsistence is motivated by the need to live + more
We live in an age in which respectful, good-faith, reasoned debate is the exception rather than the rule. So I’m + more
Do yourself a favor and check out this great profile of La Monte Young, “the composer who quietly shaped much + more