Nearly 50 migrants, many from Venezuela, found themselves unexpectedly in Martha’s Vineyard last month, part of a political stunt by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis meant to protest US President Joe Biden’s immigration policy. Some migrants said they’d been told…
The consistency of the phenomena around us, order, regularity, cyclical repetitions and renewals… brings me repose and gives me support. In my pictures I try to bear witness that we are living in a beautiful, ordered world, and not in…
What’s happening The office of Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum is being inundated with Freedom of Information Act requests. Why it matters As for Krebs, he was fired, as he likes to say, by tweet, days later. He’s since gone…
[iii] Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, and Thomas Grundmann’s “introduction” to The Epistemology of Fake News, Oxford University Press, 2021. Ultimately, the study of the epistemic environment in pre- or non-democratic societies, I would argue, has important lessons for current…
“I am always your debtor,” he wrote to the artist. Here was a tall gaunt man who looked like a priest and carried himself like a professor, neat and precise, Victorian to the bone, wresting from his unquiet mind something…
This story is part of Recession Help Desk, CNET’s coverage of how to make smart money moves in an uncertain economy. With inflation high for basic essentials such as gas and groceries, Frink said that her family has to do…
Days go by and he does not return. Michael Strange and Margaret Wise Brown One day a lady had gone into the woodsjust a little way. But when she came outshe spoke in words that none of the other peoplecould…
Most people refinance because the market interest rates are lower than their current rates or because they want to change their loan term. When deciding whether to refinance, be sure to take into account other factors besides market interest rates,…
A very influential objection to Presentism is empirical: insofar as Presentism entails that there is an absolute relation of simultaneity, Presentism seems to be in conflict with relativistic physics. Our goal is to argue against the orthodox view that our…
[This post originally appeared on June 6th, 2015.] (image: detail of “Haggadah (P2)” by Gerhard Richter) A little while ago there was a discussion on Reddit about “the most beautiful paragraph or sentence you’ve ever read.” I don’t know about…
Like the recent Pinocchio (another Disney Plus retread), Hocus Pocus 2 is yet another modern film that’s frustratingly murky. Day scenes fade under a desaturated palette that doesn’t fit the colorful material at all, and night scenes are often too…
Homer and Shakespeare speak to us probably far more effectually than they did to the men of their own time, and most likely we have them at their best. Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning…