KILL A WITCH
A new book “How to Kill a Witch” brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being …
SOUNDBITE WORLD
We all know that we are in a soundbite world. It doesn’t matter if you spend your life on the phone, just read news feeds, …
A GOOD STATUS REPORT
A good status report: On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that …
AMERICAN ILLITERACY
Forty-eight million adults in the U.S. read at or below the third-grade level, to use the blog’s title here, American illiteracy. Many of these adults struggle …
PRITZKER
This blog is an article by Heather Cox Richardson on a spectacular speech by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. I think it follows in the footsteps …
WOODPECKER
A Coastal New England Town’s ‘Ornery’ Vandal: A Woodpecker. More than 20 vehicles in a town on Cape Ann, Mass., have been damaged by a …
DAVID BROOKS
The following column, written by David Brooks, a conservative in the traditional sense of the word, appeared in the New York Times last week. I …
FRIEDMAN
I thought that this article by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times was an important analysis of the current political situation in the U.S. …
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
The relationship between education and democracy and the education levels of the electorate could not have been brought into sharper focus the political events of …
DIRE WOLF
Ben Lamm, the 43-year-old denim-jacketed CEO of Colossal Biosciences, claims to have reintroduced dire wolves into the world after more than 10,000 years of extinction. …