What a Wise Greek Taught Me About Will Power
Prudentius offers “an ancient guide to not giving in.”
Dispatches
Lennon-Ono Documentary Also a Snapshot of America
Because this film cannot help suggesting a comparison of ’60s engagement with post-millennial numbness, it becomes a bit of an indictment of us, a spreading-around of Hannah Arendt’s evil.
Decoding—and Recovering?—the Veil
No other garment is as modest and erotic, humble and powerful, obvious and enigmatic.
The Presidential Fitness Test Is Back to Shame Us All over Again? Great!
If any single contradiction defines us as Americans, it is that we are gluttons for the spectacle of team sports, but for the most part we starve ourselves of individual exercise. Our nation’s high schools abound in football and basketball teams as social and civic…
I Am Not Very Happy Now: And Other Lessons from Small Children About Facing Pain
Diversity, inclusion, and the pursuit of equity may be on the run in the 2020s, but I look around this campus, this city, and this country, and I can see that a lot of different kinds of people are still here. I am still here. We are still here. What now?
Welcome to Cafe Coca Cola
Spies, revolutionaries, and film stars haunted the oldest cafe in Panama
First No Reading Lamps, Then No Books?
Will we stop reading altogether? And what will we substitute, to deepen our souls?
The Knick Is the TV Show Medical Quacks Hope You Never Watch
‘The Knick’ is both an homage to physicians and medical researchers of the past, even those wildly wrong but well-meaning. Above all, it is a portent of what we stand to lose when we cannot, or refuse to, remember all that our modern medical establishment was built on a foundation of trial, error, and incredible suffering and loss of life.‘‘
Using What You Have
It is not a small problem, finding the right balance of things in a place to live, including that your time outdoors is not just a walk from house to car.
Our American Assassins
The first anniversary of the July 13, 2024, attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump landed with all the grace of a brick hurled through a living room window. Few of Trump’s critics dared to comment on it then, except to say that political violence in the…