If the eyes of all people are upon America now, they are not witnessing an edifying spectacle.

"Abraham Lincoln’s definition of Democracy as ‘For the people, by the people and of the people’ is a generally agreed concept. But the present global trends of recognized democracies taking a fascist ultra-right turn speaks of an inherent _...Read More_

>"What many U.S. schoolchildren don't learn is that Susan B. Anthony was fighting to ensure Black men didn't get the vote before white women."

>"The overthrow of Guyana’s ruling party by colonial forces fomented a racial divide, writes professor and author Gaiutra Bahadur"

>"The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly."

Haruki Murakami's short story on the memories of his Father. "My father had been studying, no doubt conscientiously, to become a priest. But a simple clerical error had turned him into a soldier. He went through brutal basic training, was _...Read More_

“To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” This is the subtext of Reagan’s whole worldview finally rendered overt by Nixon’s secret recordings. Though unsurprising if _...Read More_

"We are still living in the wake of slavery," says Paul Gardullo, director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and a member of the Slave Wrecks Project that was _...Read More_

The history of psychiatry, like most medical fields, is wrought with gruesome experiments and extremely sad circumstances, usually portrayed in docudrama or fictive films that ultimately drew me away from the subject. Good to read on this _...Read More_

Great essay on modernist legibility failure mode. Legibility failure mode recipe: _...Read More_

notes on the history of the artist as an amateur w nod to a timeline of increasingly sophisticated prosumer tools

"A new study in Nature examines trends of inequality across millennia, noting that inequality more often than not leads to social collapse."

China does not exist. ““China” is, and always has been, an economic category. The Occidental mirage of the “Far East” arose to designate the stubborn persistence of various non-capitalist modes of production on the East Asian mainland. _...Read More_

The tasty Japanese seaweed nori is ubiquitous today, but that wasn't always true. Nori was once called “lucky grass” because every year's harvest was entirely dependent on luck. Then, during World War II, luck ran out. No nori would grow _...Read More_