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A master of “intelligent meanness,” Elizabeth Hardwick did not exempt her own work from such treatment
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Martha Mitchell: The Socialite Turned Watergate Whistleblower
Fifty years after the break-in and burglary of the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate,...
Haiti historians are up in arms: the New York Times has intruded on their turf. Their defensiveness is telling
Let’s assign to historians and press ethicists the precise debt the Times owes the leading Haiti...
PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS: Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Minnesota and Arkansas
IF IT’S TUESDAY IN AMERICA, WE VOTE!Tonight we have primaries in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Minnesota with bonus runoff elections in Texas. Poll closing times are below:Polls close tonight (EST):7p – Georgia7p and 8p – Alabama8:30p – Arkansas8p and 9p – Texas9 p.m. – Minnesota (per @ethanbencohen)— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 24, 2022Election results from…
How the ‘apocalyptic’ Southern Baptist report almost didn’t happen
(RNS) — For three minutes last summer, a call to investigate how Southern Baptist leaders have...
“England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt to…”
“England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt...
How Credit Scores Can Run—and Ruin—Our Lives
Listen to an audio version of this story For more audio from The Walrus, subscribe to AMI-audio podcasts on iTunes. Angela Monaghan was perched on a lawn chair when she learned that she was dead. A fifty-six-year-old high school teacher from the township of Tiny, Ontario, Monaghan had gone to her nearby Canadian Tire to…
If Nancy Pelosi is denied Communion, why not William Barr?
(RNS) — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Friday (May 20) that he has barred...
Implicit Attitudes, Science, and Philosophy (guest post)
“Philosophers, including myself, have for decades been too credulous about science, being misled...
7 Years Later Excerpt #4: Student Evaluations
Given that many of us have just had our semesters conclude, I thought it would be appropriate to...
Gorgeous paintings of ancient Egyptian goddesses revealed under layers of bird poop
Home News This photo shows the cleaning on part of the temple in progress. After the cleaning is...
‘Democratic’ jackdaws use noise to make decisions
By Georgina RannardBBC News Climate & ScienceImage source, Getty ImagesJackdaws use a...
Untangling space and time
Untangling space and time Date May 24, 2022 Author Philosophy News share Post Content Originally...
Nearly 8,000-year-old skull found in Minnesota River
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A partial skull that was discovered last summer by two kayakers in...
Thousands of Chimp Vocal Recordings Reveal a Hidden Language We Never Knew About
A common chimpanzee vocalizing. (Andyworks/Getty Images) We humans like to think our mastery of...
Steps the Supreme Court Takes to Reach a Decision
When the Supreme Court of the United States agrees to hear a case, the only part of the process...
Techno-Optimism: An Analysis, An Evaluation and A Modest Defence
Here’s a new paper. This one was a bit of a labour of love. It is an analysis of what it means to...
The middle of the world
Covering some 50 miles and more than 10,000 feet of elevation gain, the R2R2R2 (rim-to-rim-to-rim)...
More than muses and martyrs
Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche – there is no shortage of geniuses in 19th-century...
Voluntary Euthanasia
[Revised entry by Robert Young on May 24, 2022. Changes to: Main text] The entry sets out five...
Summer 2022 Plans: a Note to Readers
Dear Readers, [J. Weinberg] I’ve been running Daily Nous for over 8 years with very few pauses....
Prosody has no fixed politics, but try telling that to the defenders of its two camps: Straight Rhymers and Slant Rhymers
Rhyme thrives at both poles of literature. It is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are...
Russell Moore Calls Actions of SBC Leaders ‘Blasphemy’ following Release of Sex Abuse Report
Former Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore penned a column for Christianity Today over the weekend lamenting the findings of an independent investigation into sex abuse within the SBC.On Sunday, the SBC publicly released a 288-page report from independent domestic and internal investigation firm Guidepost Solutions outlining the denomination’s failure…
Henry Kissinger’s Controversial Role in the Vietnam War
As advisor to President John F. Kennedy, then national security advisor (1969-75) and secretary of...
This Woman Built a Formidable Gambling Empire in 1920s Harlem
Madame Stephanie St. Clair was a Harlem entrepreneur with a head for numbers and a skill for...
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life,…”
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his...
