One thing the pandemic done has exposed a real problem in the way we talk about science in this nation, as if it was a thing that existed in a vacuum and not part of society, the myriad problems of wh
One of the reasons that corporations can quite literally get away with murder is that the fines they face for their actions simply don’t add up to enough that it matters, especially to large com
This is the grave of Thomas Barber. Born in 1814 in Pennsylvania, Barber later moved to Indiana, where he worked in the wool clothing business. As was common for lots of people during these years, he
I decided to watch another in the Criterion Channel series on animation for adults. Chico & Rita is a 2010 Spanish film about a pre-revolutionary Cuban tempestous romance between a singer and a pi
I’ve been wrestling with the impact of toxic individualism on our society for some time now and the response to the pandemic is a perfect example of this. Freedom now means “I can do whate
College sports–by which we truly mean college football and sort of men’s college basketball, as nothing else really matters to what I am about to say–is undergoing revolutionary chan
I probably am enjoying this more than I should. The granddaughter of arch anti-LGBTQ activist Anita Bryant is getting married to another woman, and she doesn’t know whether to invite her homophobic
For the latest LGM podcast, I was happy to interview Paul Adler, historian at Colorado College, on his new book No Globalization without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality published r