Video: Earthsea | What the Original Wizard School Got Right
What are the literary origins of the boy wizard and the wizard school? This video takes us on an adventure through 20th century fantasy literature to explore the roots of this trope, the connection between Lord of the Rings, Earthsea and Harry Potter, and how race, feminism, gay wizards and bi witches feature in this universe.
Gabriel J. Chin: Trump found guilty | 5 key aspects of the trial explained by a law professor
After the conviction of former President Donald Trump on 34 felony countsof falsifying business records in New York, what comes next?
Abby Zimet: Holy, Holy, Holy | Guilty As F-ck Of Absolutely Everything
Along with his endless squealing and whining about a witch hunt, Trump outlandishly compared himself to Mother Teresa.
Derrick Z. Jackson: In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.
Margo Berdeshevsky: Beyond My Used-up Words
If I say
what I know of plenty and of empty,
how will I sleep, or dream of herons?
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN: CAN WOMEN WIN?
It will take concerted action to ensure that women belong in the House.
James Crews: Two Poems
Why do we try
to rush delight, strong-arm joy
into busy lives, when so much
beauty already seeds itself beneath
our restless feet?
Brett Wilkins: New ICC Complaint Over Journalists Killed by Israel in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders says it has “reasonable grounds for thinking that some of these journalists were deliberately killed and that the others were the victims of deliberate IDF attacks against civilians.”
Alice Friman: Confidentially Pink
When I stepped down from the train
and he wasn’t there
I didn’t panic. I knew he’d come
for I had dressed in pink–
Rachel Wahl: 6 ways to encourage political discussion on college campuses
Students in fact want to have difficult conversations across divides, but they need support from faculty and other facilitators in order for these discussions to go well.
Sean Sexton: Unrecognizable
A friend of my sister attended the reading—
sat in the back of the hall—coming forth only after
everyone had gone.
Pamela Uschuk: Return of the Warbling Vireo
Hear me please, hear
me, the melodic vireo cries, hear me
tumbles time
from his lonely beak on fire
Video: The Watchmaker
Finding chaos and precision in all things – a philosophy of watchmaking.
Michael Simms: A Commentary on the Saga of Milon Redshield
By Tatatungia the witch, known as The Wanderer, visiting the court of Queen Oleanna Vth