Child Brides and the "Grooming" Lie
Edited by David Swanson Some months ago I wrote about the “Critical Race Theory” panic sweeping school boards and slate legislatures, a fact-free but...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII and XIII A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #22: Broodje Kroket
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
How to Deface a Swastika
Edited by David Swanson The final mast(r/place) on Reddit Over the weekend, I—along with a few million other people—became transfixed by an experiment on...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII When the congregation rose to engage in silent prayer, Yossel...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Morning and Evening: Editor's Note
If last week’s installment of Talia’s novella seemed somewhat disjointed, or even post-modern, this was an unintended consequence of an editorial snafu on my...
Notable Sandwiches #21: The Butifarra
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Six Months of Swords and Sandwiches
Edited by David Swanson Dear readers! (Swordsmen? Sand-Witchers?) Because this week marks half a year of this newsletter being in existence, I thought I’d...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
Notable Sandwiches #20: The British Rail Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I, in the company of my editor David Swanson, nibble through the baroque and demented document...
A Country Indifferent to Death
Edited by David Swanson There’s an old saying, cobbled together from Pearl S. Buck and Hubert Humphrey and often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, that the...
A Country Indifferent to Death
Edited by David Swanson There’s an old saying, cobbled together from Pearl S. Buck and Hubert Humphrey and often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, that the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI Edited by David Swanson “Ярмарка в деревне (Fair in the Village)” by...
Notable Sandwiches #19: The Breakfast Sandwich
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, where I nibble through the strange and twisted document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
War Music: A Short History of the Ukrainian Language
Edited by David Swanson How do you contextualize a war? The realities of it are beyond comprehension, of course: cities bombarded, the number of dead in the...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XI
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X Edited by David Swanson “A Red Horse” by Marc Chagall, 1938 By the time...