Anatomy of a Con: The Mark
Edited by David Swanson The scene this week in Brasília Last week was the anniversary of one failed coup, and the beginning of another. As the angry crowds...
Notable Sandwiches #50: Le Croque Monsieur et Le Croque Madame
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre document...
The Great Right-Wing Con Job
It’s 2023—once again I find that the 2020s feel like sci-fi dates to me and lament that we don’t have a Galactic Federation yet—and I’m so delighted to have...
Notable Sandwiches #49: Crisp
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
Gilt by Association
Edited by David Swanson A panel from the Arch of Titus in Rome It’s Chanukah, day two of the Festival of Lights, where we celebrate the victory of heroic...
Notable Sandwiches #48: Corned Beef
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
The Man Who Would Be King
Edited by David Swanson The Waidmannsheil hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein, Thuringia, where Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss planned his coup The man lived a...
Notable Sandwich: Editor's Note
The Notable Sandwich Team has been hit by a series of maladies this week, and rather than deliver a half-hearted column, we’ve opted to marshal our resources...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Can a Revolutionary Enjoy Beauty?
Emma is all about free love. And men… men are digging it. In a remarkably chaste and innocent way! The would-be suitors: Sasha Berkman, an uncompromising...
World War I, Part II: The King and Apis
The assassination and autopsy of Serbia’s King Alexander I and Queen Draginja (left) and the aftermath (right), 1903 In 1903, more than a decade before a...
Notable Sandwich #47: the Club Sandwich
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Bad Sex at the Corset Factory
Previously: Chapter 1 Welcome back to the Emma Goldman Book Club, as we go through Emma Goldman’s juicily frank memoir, “Living My Life,” one chapter a week....
Thanksgrieving
This is a specific story. A specific small giant has gone, a woman possessed of a certain kind of midcentury glamor that has largely passed from the world,...
Notable Sandwiches: Post-Thanksgiving Special
In lieu of our regularly scheduled sandwich content, Talia and I decided to honor America’s post-Thanksgiving eating traditions—and satisfy our own...
Curtained with Fire: World War I, a Century On
Edited by David Swanson The destruction of Ypres, France, 1917; the destruction of Bilohorivka, Ukraine, 2022 There’s a land war going on in Europe—millions...
Notable Sandwiches #46: Churrasco
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Introducing: the Sword & Sandwich Book Club!
Edited by David Swanson A 17-year-old Emma Goldman in 1886 (left), and in her 1901 mugshot Hello and welcome, especially to new subscribers! I assume a lot...
Notable Sandwiches #45: Chow Mein
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Notes from a Battlefield
Edited by David Swanson Manassas, Virginia, where America’s last Civil War began If you’re reading this and haven’t voted, go vote, obviously. Even if it...
Notable Sandwiches Special: 1909 Edition
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...