Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
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Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History?
Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.
Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List
Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.
The Humanities Marketplace As a Circle of Hell
The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.
Seeding a Dark World with New Life
As she’s done before, Sara B. Franklin greets the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.
‘Choose Marriage or Education’
As a teenager, Madhur Anand’s mother takes heed of her father’s final words and becomes a teacher.
This Week in Books: Several Nihilistic Frenchmen
This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.
Leadership Academy
Victor Yang considers how his time as an immigrant rights organizer helped him understand his mother, and the guilt and obligation he carries from their relationship.
How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives
Adjuncts have unionized to try to negotiate a livable wage, but can their efforts defeat the college industrial complex?
Washington D.C.’s New Media Landscape Is Niche
General readers won’t have heard of their publications, but Washington D.C.’s trade press cater to specialist readers who pay top dollar for the beats they cover.
