The first report from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966 was a passionate defense of the government’s role in the arts.
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Posted inNonfiction
A Slice of Cake and a Tip Lead to a Portrait of Addiction in Ohio
New York Times reporter Jack Healy was sitting in a diner when he received a tip about a father who had lost two of his three adult children to opioid overdoses.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump
In 2013, the same year that Harvard Business School alum Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, which encouraged women to tell their employers exactly what they needed in the workplace, the sixty housekeepers of the HBS-owned Boston-Cambridge DoubleTree Suites presented their unionization petition to their manager.
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Women in Power
Mary Beard’s epic essay on women in power “from Medusa to Merkel” takes aim at representations of power throughout history, and how the definitions of authority, expertise, and knowledge have long excluded women.
Posted inBooks, History, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
Ona Judge slipped out of the president’s house one night and didn’t come back. But unlike most runaway slaves, she was never caught.
Posted inBlog Post, Covers, Uncategorized
How Long Does Barry Jenkins Have to Keep Hanging Out with Damien Chazelle?
If it was up to the media, probably forever.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Business of Being a Feminist Bookstore
Running a bookstore is hard enough, but the business of feminist bookstores is deeply entwined with both politics and money.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Quotes
The Last Decent Person in Washington
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is an Obama appointee who embodies the calm, measured wisdom of the 44th President.
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The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility
Armed with a drawerful of butterscotch candy and a charge to safeguard America’s past, Carla Hayden may be the last person left in Washington with a hopeful eye to future.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
A President in Search of An Enemy
A brief history of the phrase, “enemy of the people.”