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.
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.
A Country That Devours its Children
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes painted “Saturn Devouring His Son” in a period of madness that consumed his latter years. It was then that the Spanish master...
A Country That Devours its Children
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes painted “Saturn Devouring His Son” in a period of madness that consumed his latter years. It was then that the Spanish master...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX “Софія Київська (Sophia of...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX “Софія Київська (Sophia of...
Notable Sandwiches #26: Canadian Hot Chicken
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 #26: Canadian Hot Chicken
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the demented and mysterious...
White Supremacy's Warped Rationale
In the aftermath of any mass slaughter in this country, the conversation turns, in desultory fashion, to the issue of mental illness. Tucker Carlson,...
White Supremacy's Warped Rationale
In the aftermath of any mass slaughter in this country, the conversation turns, in desultory fashion, to the issue of mental illness. Tucker Carlson,...
Morning and Evening, Pt. XIX
Previously: Morning and Evening, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII “Mother by the oven” by Marc...