The Comics Section: Coronavirus Predictions and Priorities
The latest from Cagle Cartoons and Raging Pencils. Cartoon by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Poetry
I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining. Patience, an old-fashioned name the Puritans borrow from the Bible and... Read More
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965
EDITED BY SEAN WILENTZ LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2020 Conspiracy theories are the last refuge of the status quo—its last line of ideological defense. “It’s not that our institutions are bad,” a conspiracy theory promises, “It’s... Read More
The Comics Section: Protecting Rights and Fighting Colds
The latest from Cagle Cartoons and Raging Pencils. Cartoon by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
Unburying Diderot
An excerpt from Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran Sometime during the snowy winter of 1793, under cover of night, a small group of thieves pried open a wooden door... Read More
The Comics Section: A Year without End and Ordering Lunch
The latest from Cagle Cartoons and Raging Pencils. Comic by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
The Comics Section: Back in the Bunker and Unconscionable Priorities
The latest from Cagle Cartoons. Back In The Bunker by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, MA Black Lives by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT