More Than Their Crimes
Meeting a murderer and finding a friend.
Story of a Photograph
Posted on August 17, 2020
Image: Chartres Street, New Orleans, 1974, by John Rosenthal (detail).
The man who approached me on Chartres Street looked like he’d been tossed away.
Aristotle, Literally
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Matt Dinan
Posted on August 13, 2020
Image: Aristotle, Alvaro Marques Hijazo (2018). Image via Wikimedia Commons.
I don’t think Aristotle is our enemy. I consider him a friend.
Our Police and Us
Posted on August 5, 2020
Image: New York’s BLM Encampment, June 26. Felton Davis via Wikimedia Commons.
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America’s police are made in America’s image.
Still Searching
Posted on July 23, 2020
Image: Nuclear reactor diagrams/Library of Congress, Science Photo Library; diagram of a whale from an 1880s comparative zoology textbook.
The Internet is a technical system that has reshaped social roles and relationships in ways that we are at this point far from fully understanding. We are living out the terms of the new social contract.
Alexander Herzen and the Plural World
Herzen won’t stop striving for social transformation with every ounce of energy he has, but also won’t pick up Chernyshevsky’s axe.