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ANNUAL TOP TEN BOOK LIST: A great deal of what I read this year
ANNUAL TOP TEN BOOK LIST: A great deal of what I read this year was for either my two seminar courses or for one of several writing projects. But I st...

The great lie that we hear in our echo chambers is that we are
The great lie that we hear in our echo chambers is that we are supposed to hate the people who disagree with us--or at least to consider them mentally...

Clarissa and her friend are doing a project for school that
Clarissa and her friend are doing a project for school that involves making a cake shaped as the island in Lord of the Flies. She asks me this morning...

I have never heard the phrase “We the People” invoked in
I have never heard the phrase “We the People” invoked in political discourse in a way that did not implicitly define somewhere close to half of th...

Ever since there have been such things as novels, the world has
Ever since there have been such things as novels, the world has been flooded with bad fiction for which the religious impulse has been responsible. Th...

Instead of having a serious conversation about why we are holding
Instead of having a serious conversation about why we are holding people who are not officially people in a place that is technically not a place, it ...