Grief Music
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers....
Countdown to Wild Faith
With Talia celebrating Rosh Hashanah this week, and a busy stretch ahead for both of us, team S&S is taking today off, before we return for our next...
Dispossessed: An Excerpt
Today we're honored and delighted to run an excerpt from Désirée Zamorano's recently published novel Dispossessed, a work of historical fiction that is...
TLDS September Culture Klatsch
Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid subscribers....
Notable Sandwiches #112: Marmalade
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, led gently by my brilliant and long-suffering editor David Swanson, meander down the path of...
Children of the Revolution
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Notable Sandwiches #111: The Luther Burger
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the ever-evolving document that is Wikipedia’s...
Anatomy of a Pogrom
Members of Blood Tribe outside City Hall in Springfield, OH How does ethnic violence start, and how does it spread? Who uses it, and for what purpose? The...
Television is Dead. Long Live Television
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, a feature where David and I write about what we’ve been reading, watching, playing, and listening to, for paid...
Notable Sandwiches #110: Lox
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, along my patient editor David Swanson, trawl the waters of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches...
The Making (and Sanewashing) of Donald Trump
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #108: Lobster Roll
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, wade our way through the treacherous shoals of Wikipedia’s...
Raw Milk and the Collapse of Consensus Reality
Louis Pasteur didn’t set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
Bell Riot Day
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
A Summer of Notable Sandwiches
By David Swanson Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where Talia and I tiptoe through the tulips of Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in...
TLDS August Culture Klatch
Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where David and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or...
Notable Sandwiches #107: Limburger
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, trudge our way through the moors of Wikipedia’s List of...
Begone, Panty-Sniffing Ghouls of the GOP
I am a feminist. Am I militant? Is there any other way to be a feminist right now? Am I strident? Am I unlikeable? Am I mean? Do I give you unpleasant...
Conventional Wisdom
By David Swanson Welcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading,...
Notable Sandwiches #106: Leberkäse
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my noble editor David Swanson, slough through the marshes of Wikipedia’s List of Notable...