Notable Sandwich #35: The Chicken Fillet Roll
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which we trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable...
Starving for Jesus, Part 2
Edited by David Swanson Gwen Shamblin Lara and daughter Elizabeth Shamblin Hannah Maria Zenovich, director of “The Way Down,” the HBO documentary series that...
Starving for Jesus, Part 2
Edited by David Swanson Gwen Shamblin Lara and daughter Elizabeth Shamblin Hannah Maria Zenovich, director of “The Way Down,” the HBO documentary series that...
Notable Sandwiches #34: Chicken
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document...
Notable Sandwiches #34: Chicken
Welcome to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing document...
Introducing: Ask a Banner-Carrier
Hello to my fellow sword wielders and sandwich lovers! Today’s post is but a brief missive to introduce a new feature, in the hopes of enlivening The Sword...
Introducing: Ask a Banner-Carrier
Hello to my fellow sword wielders and sandwich lovers! Today’s post is but a brief missive to introduce a new feature, in the hopes of enlivening The Sword...
Notable Sandwiches #33: The Cheesesteak
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches #33: The Cheesesteak
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
A Holiday of Ashes
Edited by David Swanson Romans destroying the Second temple in Jerusalem, by Jan Luyken and Pieter Mortier, 1705. It’s a harsh thing, but a gracious thing,...
A Holiday of Ashes
Edited by David Swanson Romans destroying the Second temple in Jerusalem, by Jan Luyken and Pieter Mortier, 1705. It’s a harsh thing, but a gracious thing,...
Notable Sandwiches #32: Cheese & Pickle
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches #32: Cheese & Pickle
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Fascism's Useful Idiots
Michael Hobbes, the podcaster behind the health-woo-skepticism juggernaut Maintenance Phase and the early years of the beloved podcast You’re Wrong About,...
Fascism's Useful Idiots
Michael Hobbes, the podcaster behind the health-woo-skepticism juggernaut Maintenance Phase and the early years of the beloved podcast You’re Wrong About,...
Notable Sandwiches #31: On the Interpretation of Cheese Dreams
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches #31: On the Interpretation of Cheese Dreams
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Prophets of America
Edited by David Swanson In 1839, in Trout Creek, New York, in the sparsely-populated hinterlands of Delaware County, a prophet was born. His name was Cyrus...
Prophets of America
Edited by David Swanson In 1839, in Trout Creek, New York, in the sparsely-populated hinterlands of Delaware County, a prophet was born. His name was Cyrus...
Notable Sandwiches #30: Cheese
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches #30: Cheese
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Land of Rotten Tomatoes
Edited by David Swanson Religion in America has always been an unwieldy thing. The settlers who arrived here in the 1600s were, many of them, fleeing the...
Land of Rotten Tomatoes
Edited by David Swanson Religion in America has always been an unwieldy thing. The settlers who arrived here in the 1600s were, many of them, fleeing the...
Notable Sandwiches Summer Special: The Prison Sandwich
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches Summer Special: The Prison Sandwich
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
"Act Like This is a War"
When reporting on religious extremism in this country for the past few years, I’ve gotten invaluable guidance from a community that calls itself, quite...
"Act Like This is a War"
When reporting on religious extremism in this country for the past few years, I’ve gotten invaluable guidance from a community that calls itself, quite...
Notable Sandwiches #29: The Chacarero
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
Notable Sandwiches #29: The Chacarero
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the profoundly odd and ever-changing...
American Massacre
Chad Daybell, a graying, soft-chinned man with weakness for checked button-down shirts—a man who looked altogether more like a state senator than a mass...
American Massacre
Chad Daybell, a graying, soft-chinned man with weakness for checked button-down shirts—a man who looked altogether more like a state senator than a mass...
This Piece Totally Encapsulates My Feelings About All of Life Since Roe v Wade Was Overturned
Author's note: I'm too heartbroken about the loss of my civil rights to write the sandwich column today. Please donate to the NNAF. I’d write you a half-...
This Piece Totally Encapsulates My Feelings About All of Life Since Roe v Wade Was Overturned
Author's note: I'm too heartbroken about the loss of my civil rights to write the sandwich column today. Please donate to the NNAF. I’d write you a half-...
The World Turned Upside Down
The frontispiece from the 1646 pamphlet, The World Turned Upside Down. There is a famous quote included in nearly every history of the English Civil Wars....
The World Turned Upside Down
The frontispiece from the 1646 pamphlet, The World Turned Upside Down. There is a famous quote included in nearly every history of the English Civil Wars....
Sobre la Cultura del Odio
Editor’s Note:Yesterday we published the English version of a speech Talia is delivering in Barcelona this week. Today, for our Spanish readers, we hope...
Sobre la Cultura del Odio
Editor’s Note:Yesterday we published the English version of a speech Talia is delivering in Barcelona this week. Today, for our Spanish readers, we hope...
Notes on the Culture of Hate
Editor’s Note:Happy first day of Summer, and welcome back to the Sword and the Sandwich. This week, Talia is in Europe, celebrating the Spanish translation...
Notes on the Culture of Hate
Editor’s Note:Happy first day of Summer, and welcome back to the Sword and the Sandwich. This week, Talia is in Europe, celebrating the Spanish translation...
Vacation Notice!
Dear sword-wielders and sandwich lovers! I’m taking two weeks off to work on the book I’m supposed to be writing, whose deadline has been inching nearer and...
Vacation Notice!
Dear sword-wielders and sandwich lovers! I’m taking two weeks off to work on the book I’m supposed to be writing, whose deadline has been inching nearer and...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XXII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX and XXI “Landscape with a...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XXII
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX and XXI “Landscape with a...
Notable Sandwiches #28: The Cemita
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongide my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #28: The Cemita
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongide my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Hopeless and Hopeful
America’s shit sundae The person I’ve thought about most over the past week is a woman named Christa Brown. It’s been a bad few weeks. A bad few years,...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XXI
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, and XX The parcels seemed...
Notable Sandwiches #27: Caviar
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongide my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
Notable Sandwiches #27: Caviar
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongide my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
A Country That Devours Its Children (Audio)
I thought I would record an audio version of today’s piece. Let me know if you find it useful and would like more such recordings.