By E.J. Dionne, Jr. / 11.03.2016 Washington Post Columnist Will Missouri be the one state next Tuesday that produces an anti-establishment trifecta? And will we ever get to exploring how Donald Trump, who has trafficked with old-style politicians all his life, has gotten away with casting himself as the year’s premier outsider? Missouri was, as[…]
An illustration from Puck mocking William Jennings Bryan and his whistle stop tour (1896) By Dr. Charles Musser / 11.02.2016 Professor of American Studies, Film & Media Studies, and Theater Studies Yale University It started in the 1890s. Can their deployment offer us some kind of historical perspective on the current election? Certainly the cutting[…]
Greene as pictured in the frontispiece to John Dickenson’s Greene in Conceipt (1598) / Wikimedia Commons Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene was a fascinating figure. Ed Simon explores the literary merits and bohemian traits of the man who penned[…]
By Joe Clark / 11.02.2016 Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has a big problem with increasing the number of registered voters in his state. Slate reports that Merrill, like many Republicans, opposes recent reforms in voter registration policies that could significantly increase the number of registered voters. The proposal would automatically register eligible state residents[…]
Luminous ‘Spirit’ Trumpet Why does one of the world’s great research libraries have ‘ectoplasm’, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million books, manuscripts and digital collections? 11.03.2016 The answers lie in the second major exhibition of Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary – Curious Objects – which puts on[…]
Chamber in Cappuccini Catacombs with Earth from Palestine, Rome, ca. 1900, Underwood and Underwood, Bert Underwood. Gelatin silver, 9 x 19 cm. GRI Digital Collections, 96.R.28. Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program When the ultimate symbol of death serves as muse, it can force us to confront our own mortality. Co-published with[…]
By Liam Purvis / 11.03.2016 Important Tips for Non-Natives Who Want to Support Standing Rock A brief disclaimer: As a relatively young white man, I am not an expert in white allyship for native causes, and am in no way a spokesperson for any indigenous movement. I was inspired to write this piece only because[…]
Spring forward, fall back … why? / Shutterstock By Dr. Laura Grant / 11.02.2016 Assistant Professor of Economics McKenna College Today the sun is shining during my commute home from work. But this weekend, public service announcements will remind us to “fall back,” ending daylight saving time (DST) by setting our clocks an hour earlier[…]
By Mark Frauenfelder / 11.03.2016 The grand prize winner of Japan’s 2016 Good Design Award went to a world map, designed by Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa. From Spoon & Tamago: Narukawa developed a map projection method called AuthaGraph (and founded a company of the same name in 2009) which aims to create maps[…]
Brexit opponents disagreed with the Leave’s argument that the June vote reflected the true will of the people. (Photo: Getty) High court ruled government does not have unilateral power to withdraw the U.K. from the E.U. by triggering Article 50 By Nadia Prupis / 11.03.2016 The U.K.’s High Court on Thursday ruled that only British[…]