Amy King, “Perspective”
for X., because you need to stop being racist and apologizing for all that is wrong in the world. There are harsher consequences than my words or anger. There h...
Category: politics
On Anxiety
Down the highway she drove, accompanied by leather seats, a space-age dashboard, all the space climate control could afford. It was like she was completely insu...
On Esotericism
John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...
Xenophon, “Apology of Socrates”
Xenophon, Apology of Socrates for Glen Thurow, whose civility & graciousness I still marvel at, and for Peter Lund, who understands how personal the love of...
Walt Whitman, “The Runner”
The Runner Walt Whitman ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as h...