Inside Out and Outside In
Camus embodied an existence that was itself conflicted, caught between the vectors of history and lived experience.
What Will America Look Like After a Second Trump Term?
Trump is a man for our moment. Both that man and moment are less authoritarian than anarchic.
Facing It
Reading words is hard enough for me without having to read faces too.
America’s Great Poet of Darkness
by
Ed Simon
Posted on March 26, 2024
Image: Robert Frost on his farm near Ripton, Vermont; Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.
If you read Frost for the snow, but don’t feel the cold, then you’re not really reading Frost
From the Warp and the Woof, We Rise
Posted on March 21, 2024
Image: The 2023 Ernel Martinez mural tribute to Dick Allen, commissioned by Mural Arts of Philadelphia; muralarts.org.
Dick Allen faced racist taunts and boos so numerous and unrelenting that he became the first player in baseball to wear his batting helmet out in the field.
Decline or Oscillation?
What looks like a disastrous collapse in students’ literacy may be simply a reversion to a kind of mean.
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