Yoby Henthorn: Anhedonia
Anhedonia: a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts. I stare at the leggy, late summer geranium Blooms bob in midair Grass as green As … Continue reading
Michael Moore: Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?
Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: After the Battle of Caporetto, 1917
I have come to rescue you -Benito Mussolini Mules on the road, troops mud-slogged, wet in their capes. Heavy guns drawn by tractors. Where the … Continue reading
Karen J. Greenberg: Liberty Is Security
The Lesson Not Drawn From Post-9/11 Government Overreach One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: When We’re Dancing the World Feels Like Higher Mathematics
When we’re dancing the world feels like higher mathematics, equations of irrational numbers that exist in the real world the way ghosts haunt dark abandoned buildings on the edge of … Continue reading
Video: The Best Drone Cinema in the World
. From the New York Drone Festival comes a montage of the best drone cinema in the world. . Hidden Worlds: Son Doong Cave made by ABC in April 2015 … Continue reading
Video: Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
. In this short video, Kurt Vonnegut shows us the visual shapes of three archetypal stories. .
Richard Tofel: Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel
In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to venture criticism of the government. The New-York Weekly … Continue reading
Video: Leon Redbone sings “Shine on, Harvest Moon”
. Filmed in Nashville, Tennessee. Leon Redbone and Scott Black on cornet perform with a studio orchestra. “Shine on, Harvest Moon” was a popular Tin Pan Alley song of unknown … Continue reading
