Pregnant mothers often wrote goodbye letters to their families in case they died in childbirth.
My normal state is salty
"Even in the left-leaning academic circles that I often find myself, asking Woolf’s question from A Room of One’s Own—How many women authors appear on your bookshelves?—is sometimes treated like a leftover question not urgent enough for our genocidal times."
There is an episode of "Punky Brewster" where Mr. Warnimont asks Punky what she thought of Tolstoy's novel, and Punky (who hadn't actually read it) says "Loved the war, hated the peace."
This comes to mind.
As someone who teaches about Goya's black paintings in conjunction with the Gothic, this review actually made me laugh out loud. (Yikes.) Coincidentally, this is always my students' favorite room in the Prado!
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
If you’re ever fretting about a bad review in something, just remember that 346 people have the Museo del Prado, one of the finest art museums in the whole world, a 1-star review on Tripadvisor
Articulating a positive case for the university is an important task for intellectuals in this moment, imo.
Sharing a bit of color from my daylily garden this morning.
tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.
Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.