Trump is a man for our moment. Both that man and moment are less authoritarian than anarchic.
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Reading words is hard enough for me without having to read faces too.
If you read Frost for the snow, but don’t feel the cold, then you’re not really reading Frost
Dick Allen faced racist taunts and boos so numerous and unrelenting that he became the first player in baseball to wear his batting helmet out in the field.
What looks like a disastrous collapse in students’ literacy may be simply a reversion to a kind of mean.
There is a poignant vulnerability to dereliction pipe organs face in a world saturated with synthetically produced musical sound.
What pleasure, what gratification, can we offer to people that exceeds the pleasure of hating?
I like to think that this kind of deference is a Baltimore thing.
What are the implications for any society that emphasizes monuments to power and domination over imagination and the arts?