3 types of normal forgetting — and 1 that isn’t
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Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil
Many works of history are much less about the past than they are about the present. People contemplate past events to understand current problems, and in today’s fractured America, the...
A New Generation of Pop Stars Are Dancing With the Devil
Though we live in a supposedly secular era, at least one spiritual tradition appears to be thriving: pop musicians flouting the devout. In the past few years, Lil Nas X...
Historical Fiction Turns a Life Into a Story
When Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, production temporarily stopped on the sixth season of Netflix’s popular historical drama The Crown, which charts the second Elizabethan age in the...
An Ode to Being Read To
I fixed my insomnia with whiskey and audiobooks.Seriously. I was a terrible non-sleeper, once upon a time. In the small hours, in the little pointy hours, wife asleep, son asleep,...
Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive
It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographs of...