No Muslims in My Backyard?
Christian Britschgi at Reason: On Sunday, The New York Times published an in-depth look at a development battle in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, where a local farmer’s plan to sell his
Why Have So Many Cultural Practices Survived Without Written Records?
by Helena Miton at Aeon Magazine: You can’t speak like they spoke. You can’t farm like they farmed. You can’t dance, or heal wounds, or greet people like they did.
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A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether or not we ultimately write down any words, we can’t help mentally composing narratives out
Bangladesh Protests: Street Art (Video)
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Tuesday Poem: What the Fish Say
My godson wanted to go look at fish but I told him, today, beauty is canceled.We cried. I felt bad. I counted the unbeautiful like broken ribs.Shrapnel in the olive
Report From the Weeds
by Mike Bendzela at 3 Quarks Daily: Today is a bit of an experiment. I take the row covers off of two forty-foot rows of beans (three varieties) as the
If You Can’t Win One War, Start an Even Bigger One
Peter Beinart at The Beinart Notebook: Given the growing chance of a regional war in the Middle East, our guest will be one of the best analysts of Palestinian and
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Is Pro-Natalism Weird?
From the Wisdom of Crowds: The new Democratic strategy is to refer to Trump’s GOP as “weird.” Because pro-natalism is becoming an increasingly hot topic, one that’s usually associated with
A Journey Into Rebel-Held Myanmar
By Charles Petrie at Neom Magazine: I was making the trek into Myanmar to get a sense of how communities were organizing themselves in the vacuum created by the retreating
Monday Poem: Paragon
To eat sweet corn straight offthe cob, just shucked—no one ever told me I could do that, likeno one ever. Another daythe world seems too full of protocolsboiled and buttered
The Endless Wait: Biharis’ History of Exile
by Harmain Ahmer in Dawn: Following the ‘Fall of Dhaka’, the non-Bengalis in Bangladesh were subjected to ‘denationalisation’ by the Government of Pakistan, as the government did not allow non-Bengalis
When Humanity Stopped Looking Backward, it Started Moving Forward
James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please: Part of my (quite popular!) recent essay “Why no Industrial Revolution in ancient Rome, Greece, or China?” deserves more explanation. I note in passing that
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