May 2013
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April 2013
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“Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that we call totalitarian leaders...”
– Read Mark Edmundson’s “Enough Already,” a commentary on the many types of bores—in addition to dictators—one can find in the world.
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March 2013
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February 2013
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Teaching the N-Word →
“I don’t enjoy hearing it. But I don’t think that I feel more offended by it than you do. What I mean is, I don’t think I have a special place of pain inside of me that the word touches because I am black.” We are both human beings, I am trying to say. She nods her head, seemingly satisfied. Even inspired, I hope.
I am lying, of course.
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Happy Birthday, Copernicus! →
In honor of the 540th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth, read Owen Gingerich’s story of the search for, and eventual reburial of, the astronomer’s remains.
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January 2013
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December 2012
20 posts
laphamsquarterly:
Important Lincoln moment you...
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“Guns don’t attack children; psychopaths and sadists do. But guns uniquely allow...”
– James Fallows, on why the shootings won’t stop. (via theatlantic) 