Ministry of Violence
This is the first of a three-part series devoted to corporal punishment in evangelical Christian households. Today’s piece focuses on views of corporal...
Notable Sandwiches #3: The Notorious B.E.C.
Onward we traipse through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches! I’ve been working on a heavy series on child abuse that will appear in your inbox for the...
Notable Sandwiches #3: The Notorious B.E.C.
Onward we traipse through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches! I’ve been working on a heavy series on child abuse that will appear in your inbox for the...
Brownshirts vs. the Board of Education
Consider, briefly, two organizations, which arose in the same state, sixty-six years apart. On October 26, 1954, five months after the monumental Supreme...
Brownshirts vs. the Board of Education
Consider, briefly, two organizations, which arose in the same state, sixty-six years apart. On October 26, 1954, five months after the monumental Supreme...
Notable Sandwiches #2: The Bacon Sandwich
Welcome to the second installment of Notable Sandwiches! In this ongoing and somewhat monumental project, I am going through the ever-changing, living...
Notable Sandwiches #2: The Bacon Sandwich
Welcome to the second installment of Notable Sandwiches! In this ongoing and somewhat monumental project, I am going through the ever-changing, living...
Starving for Jesus
Programming Note: For the first two weeks of this newsletter, in order to grow my audience and make as many people as possible aware that it exists, I’ve...
Starving for Jesus
Programming Note: For the first two weeks of this newsletter, in order to grow my audience and make as many people as possible aware that it exists, I’ve...
Notes on Some Cool Swords
As the title and logo of this newsletter might presage, I’m pretty into swords. I like having a lot of bladed weaponry around for some complex psychosexual...
On Borscht
Borscht isn’t the same color as anything else. The type I had as a kid at Passover was a creamy purple, not quite mauve, not quite the color of a violet...
Fear and Pregnancy in the Age of Covid
Over the past few weeks, a thread on TheBump.com, one of the Internet’s largest pregnancy forums, devolved into an impassioned debate. It all began when user...
Notable Sandwiches #1: The American Hero
I’ve been obsessed with Wikipedia’s “List of Notable Sandwiches” for years. First of all, I love the idea of notable sandwiches — for so much in human...
What’s Your Favorite Sandwich?
There’s an old adage that says if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. It’s most likely cribbed from the Book of Matthew (KJV: “all they that take...
Memoirs of an Occasional Witcher
It’s three forty-five AM, and, knowing I have nowhere to go in the morning and no one to greet me when I wake, I’m sailing through the Skellige Islands, the...
Apocalypse Now
Back in November 2020, when Donald Trump was still president and covid-19 vaccines were months from reaching American arms, one TikTok user went viral for...
This Day We Fight
Hello! Welcome to the Sword and the Sandwich, a new venture in which I, Talia Lavin, am teaming up with my former editor from the Village Voice, David...