Human
Humane
Humanity
Humanize
Are rare drops pouring
from vanished streams.
Beams of natural light
Left unseen
To an empty world
Sold to money-making machines.
(1) @JoshuaOdjick is an award-winning actor from Ottawa, Ontario, who was raised in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, a First Nation community in Maniwaki, Quebec.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener share a sensibility that comes through in their new film, “You Hurt My Feelings,” about mundane absurdities that rock a marriage. https://t.co/hb3CZ2KqIz
“People talk about trying to change society,” a young Bob Dylan said, in 1964. “All I know is that so long as people stay so concerned about protecting their status and protecting what they have, ain’t nothing going to be done.” https://t.co/iI3oXK4STo
For the cover of this week’s issue, the artist Chris Ware turns his gaze to the ongoing tragedy of gun violence in schools, which has forced students, teachers, and parents to accept active-shooter drills as a routine part of the school year. https://t.co/nMcxqEYAZn
“You may doubt the existence of God, but no one doubts the existence of love, especially those who have never been in love. That takes a lot of faith.” An interview with the poet Sandra Cisneros. https://t.co/OulWbyEMgc
Facebook seems to be moving away from its traditional focus on text and images, spread among people who know one another, to instead adopt TikTok’s emphasis on pure distraction. This shift is not surprising, but it is shortsighted, Cal Newport writes. https://t.co/kr3YMU7JMC
The main reason that the British Empire was able to sustain itself for more than two centuries, the historian Caroline Elkins maintains, was that the British model of state violence came wrapped in a “velvet glove” of liberal reform. https://t.co/NyxT0RxvU5
Italians go to the polls today. To understand what’s at stake, read Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s profile of Francesco Costa, the Italian journalist and podcaster who speaks about the country’s politics with clarity, candor, and dark humor.
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Essay: "The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our world forever."
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