Andrew Curry’s thorough history of our relationship to and use of alcohol is informative, enlightening, and just plain entertaining.
History
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M.I.A.
In 1968, an American soldier named John Hartley Robertson disappeared in the jungles of Laos after his helicopter was shot down. His body was never found—until 2008, when a Christian missionary discovered a man in Vietnam who claimed to be Robertson.
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Digging Through The Past to Understand the Present
Revisit a fascinating story from Smithsonian Magazine on what the discovery of a 3,500-year-old soldier’s tomb in southwestern Greece tells us about the Mycenaeans, the Minoans, and the roots of Western civilization.
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The Forgotten History of Japanese-American Designers’ World War II Internment
Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR’s executive order.
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Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze
Alcohol isn’t just a mind-altering drink: It has been a prime mover of human culture from the beginning, fueling the development of arts, language, and religion.
Posted inReading List
The Audacity of Hope: A Reading List on Barack Obama
Of all the articles written about Obama over the years, the ones that intrigued me most were the ones that helped me get to know the man and what he stood for, just a little bit better. With this reading list we remember the man, his time in office, and take a peek at what’s in store after the White House.
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What We Get Wrong About Hannah Arendt
The lessons we are drawing from her work may not be the one we most need to learn.
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What We Get Wrong about Hannah Arendt
The lessons we are drawing from her work may not be the one we most need to learn.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
What We Get Wrong about Hannah Arendt
The lessons we are drawing from her work may not be the one we most need to learn.
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The Exploitation Of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy By White Supremacy
“The Martin Luther King Jr. that we celebrate every year is no longer a man or a movement. The annual holiday is no longer a remembrance.”