Click Here to Read: The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism by
Christopher R. Browning in The New York Review of Books in the
February 21, 2019 ISSUE.
Author: Tamar Schwartz
Fridays for future. The school strike continues!
Click Here to Read: Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture twitterfeed from Greta Thunberg.
On December 12 2009, while the COP15 climate negotiations were taking place in Copenhagen, around the globe people protested for an ambitious and fair climate treaty. These are photos from the Melbourne Walk against Warming. Image: Takver.
A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
Click Here to Read: A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves: A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males by Melvin Konner in the Atlantic Monthly in the March 2019 Issue. Homo neanderthalensis lifting Rock close Reconstruction. Image: Neozoon. Public Domaian via Wikimedia Commons
POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019
Kate Sontag
Good morning, everyone – and I hope those of you in areas where it’s frigid are able to stay indoors where you can be safe and warm (or hygge, as we’ve learned to say now). I’m always impressed, as you must be, by people who manage to get to work on days like these, still cheerful and smiling, even though they may be worried about how their children are doing when schools are closed.
I met our poet for today, Kate Sontag, only recently, although I’ve had a book of hers on a table close by for many years. Some of you may already know of it: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiograpy, Edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham (Graywolf, 2001). It’s a collection of essays from a number of the best-known poets of our day, some of whom, like Colette Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 4, 2019
