The Dirty Work of Killing
It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that meat consumption has risen as fewer Americans participate in or even think about the slaughter that allows it.
You liberal you!
Posted on July 13, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: “When you can bear your own emptiness, you are free,” by Benjamin Balázs; flickr.com.
A human spirit of community and kindness can be learned. But it can also be forgotten.
Handmind in Covidtide
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on July 9, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Gardener working a cypress in the cemetery of Tulcán, located in the city of Tulcán, capital of the Carchi Province, north of Ecuador. Diego Delso / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
By forcibly breaking some of our technological habits, Covidtide creatively destabilizes others.
Our Books, Ourselves
Posted on July 7, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Stacks of books. (Eli Francis via Wikimedia Commons.)
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A personal library, like a toolshed, lives in a state of frequent and pseudo-fruitful interruption.
Our Chekhov Moment
Posted on June 29, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Cherry blossoms by Lance Cheung with a portrait of Anton Chekhov near the end of his life.
Who will emerge as the new elite from this particular moment’s cast of winners and losers?
How to Cook a Wolf Under Lockdown
Posted on June 25, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: M.F.K. Fisher shopping in a Paris market in the 1940s.
My quarrel with M.F.K. Fisher was part of a larger quarrel I’ve been having with myself ever since we went to ground in March.
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