The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley, reviewed by John Kaag at Los Angeles Review of Books
Norah Jones’s Extraordinary At-Home Concerts New Yorker
Sure, Online Opera’s Nice, But There’s Real Magic Inside Any Opera House Not Only in Sydney
Physics Or Free Will?
- Writing for ProPublica, Wendi C. Thomas with “The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.”
- Fox News’ Tucker Carlson taking heat for some comments. The Washington Post’s Allyson Chiu has the details. The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona writes about it, too.
- Does The Washington Post have different standards for social media policy for people of color? Nieman Lab’s Laura Hazard Owen looks into the matter.
Directly inspired by the paintings of Gustav Klimt’s Golden Phase, the intention of Tawny Chatmon’s project The Redemption is to “celebrate and reinforce the beauty of Black hair, features, life, and culture”.
Archaeologists may have found site of the Red Lion, London’s first playhouse Ars Technica
Alberta and South Korea’s pensions just bought the Coastal GasLink pipeline: 8 things you need to know The Narwhal (Senator-Elect)
Moose And Her Calves Decide To Spend A Day In This Family’s Backyard, Man Documents How It Went Bored Panda
Swedish PM Olof Palme’s alleged assassin does have an India connection. No, it isn’t Bofors Scroll
Fossil tracks left by an ancient crocodile that ‘ran like an ostrich’ BBC
The Story of Prisoner No. 760 Der Spiegel