Instead of building billion dollar jails, give people what they need to live.
Trapped by Mark Maguire & Setha Low explores the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. #ReadUP#ReadSUPsup.org/books/title/...
Do yourself a favor and read this stunningly beautiful essay (and peek into his book out next month) by Hanif Abdurraqib. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In my youth, when I wore a kufi, what my hair looked like became a source of wonder for the people around me. I took a foolish pleasure in holding on to that kind of power.
Someone who has spent years of their lives studying and thinking about a subject DOES in fact know more than you. That's not something to take offense at.
Rowling, Pullman, Lewis: all undergirded by a Christian theology of sacrifice. Lloyd Alexander—existentialist philosophy! Free will and real hard choices!
On Lloyd Alexander’s 100th birthday, it’s a good time to read about the Prydain Chronicles and Sartre!
Maybe there is another model for fantasy, one that does not simply eschew the Christian framework established by Tolkien and Lewis that so defines the genre, but complicates it, turning the focus away...
This is the photo I always lead with when I teach about her [context in the alt text]
I'm honored to be sharing my work with the English Department at the University of Siegen in Germany today! www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglist...
Americans can expect to live shorter lives than people in Canada China France Germany Japan Norway U.K. And dozens of other countries. **So why isn’t it a political priority?** Our months-long investigation tried to get answers. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...
No national strategy exists to reverse a years-long slide that has left the United States trailing peer nations in life expectancy.