In 1860, Herman Melville, 40 and with all of his published novels behind him, took a trip to […]
Category Archive: The Wide, Wide World
Perspectives on the political scene, public discourse, and matters of policy that are making the world around us.
“Read this,” the tweet says. “Our government is inflicting unnecessary, potentially lifelong trauma upon little children. This one […]
In the 1970s, Shulamith Firestone wrote: “the end goal of feminist revolution must be […] not just the […]
“I am a girl, and I love another girl!” M.D. writes to the Lakeland Ledger, “However, I am […]
At the 2017 Women’s March in Madison, Wisconsin, I carried a sign that read “I AM A WOMAN’S […]
I love Christmas: to begin with. In a world so thoroughly immiserated, Christmas’s annual attempt at fraternity and […]
Here’s one of the things keeping me up at night: how do we do our scholarly work when […]
Dear Colleagues: Please accept my application for a new kind of early career faculty member, not defined […]