Boutique English: A Beacon of Individualism in an Ever-Growing Ocean
Joshua Swainston considers boutique English and its poetic possibilities.
Free Thing of the Week: Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies, and Other Writings on Art
The Star’s Free Thing returns with a book about Claude Monet, written by his good friend Georges Clemenceau.
City Springtide
Max Reif sings a song of spring in this poem.
From Informal Sales to Market Intelligence: The History of the Largest Afro-Descendant Fair in Latin America
Shirley Campbell Barr looks into the phenomenon that is Feira Preta, the largest expo for people of African descent in Latin America.
Signing Critical Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?
How can young scientists be critical when they fear retaliation for their ideas? Hilda Bastian has some thoughts.
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one. Sophia Cross writes.
Sunday Comics
Who said mama’s little baby likes sho’t’ning bread? Who said mama’s little baby likes sho’t’ning sho’t’ning bread? That’s some lie some white man up and said. Mama’s little baby don’t like no sho’t’ning bread! Mama’s little baby likes Sundays! Mama’s little baby likes Comics! Mama’s little baby likes all the fine things of life! All the things a good person should have.
How Congress Censored the Internet
The largest network of anti-trafficking organizations were against it. The Department of Justice was against it. But Congress passed SESTA/FOSTA anyway. Elliot Harmon on what the sex trafficking bill really does. Hint: it doesn’t help fight trafficking.
Steel Tariffs and Doctors: A Teachable Moment
Dean Baker takes another tack on tariffs: What if the medical profession was “free trade”?
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