By Daniel Penny / 08.02.2016 Those who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands. They are thus in this sense irrelevant. But precisely because of this condition, precisely through this disconnection and this anachronism, they are more capable than[…]
Deia Schlosberg accepting an Emmy in 2014. (Photo: Danny Moloshok/AP) “They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.” By Nika Knight / 10.15.2016 In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in[…]
Source: D. Papallini / Wikimedia Commons By K. Kusch The Basement Geographer There are microstates, and then there are micronations. While a microstate is an internationally recognised sovereign entity (e.g., Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City), micronations are a bit fuzzier in their definition (as Micronation Central states it, ‘a micronation is any entity which purports[…]
Portrait Head of a Balding Man, Roman, about A.D. 240. Marble, 10 1/16 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.AA.112 Hair obsessions aren’t new. In ancient Rome, attaining the right style was a high priority for the upper-class man and woman. By Madeline Warner I don’t consider myself bald, I’m just taller than my[…]
By Stephen D. Foster, Jr. / 10.16.2016 Donald Trump has seen Saturday Night Live’s cold open portrayal of him and it caused him to throw a hissy fit like a toddler. Alec Baldwin once again turned in a brilliant and hilarious performance as the Republican nominee during the second debate and it was so goo[…]
The Rape of Helen by Tintoretto (1578–1579, Museo del Prado, Madrid); Helen languishes in the corner of a land-sea battle scene. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jan Haywood / 09.05.2016 Teaching Fellow in Ancient History University of Leicester Broken hearts: Helen and Menelaus on a vase, Louvre. / Wikimedia Commons The legend of Troy is[…]
USDA / Creative Commons The documentary Occupy the Farm shows the positive impact universities could have if they leveraged their resources to create more farms and farmers. By Chelsey Simpson / 10.07.2016 On Earth Day 2012, a group of University of California, Berkeley, students, former students, and other community members marched to the padlocked gates[…]
By Dana Milbank / 10.16.2016 Washington Post Columnist Last week, I took a break from reporting on the Trump campaign’s well-deserved and long-awaited implosion to observe Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. On this day, we symbolically beat our breasts with fists as we say the Ashamnu (literally, “we are guilty”) confession: “We betray.[…]