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Chronicles of Holocausts foretold.

Reality Winner, whistleblower and American hero, deserves a pardon

Some words for bad times, by Joan Didion

Colin Renfrew and the Illicit Incantation Bowls of Iraq. A true archaeology story.

Wisdom on this site is dispensed freely, but a gratuity is always appreciated.

Another toxic lab: Akito Kawahara, entomologist at U Florida and director of the Florida Museum's McGuire Center. [Update: Details of meeting held by Kawahara to mobilize lab members]

Keep the mourning period short, please.

A thought experiment about anti-Semitism and Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinian people (in Gaza and West Bank)

Sexual assaulter Peter Rathjen, the fired former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, is back in Australian news.

Harvard settles lawsuit claiming it did not protect students from serial sexual harasser John Comaroff. Was Claudine Gay collateral damage in the case?

The home of the Hudson River School of art. (From The Croton Chronicle.)

Alice doesn’t live here anymore (a cat story)

In my Hudson Valley village, a 78-year-old Vietnam vet who has nearly spent half his life in jail goes into local drug court. It may be his last chance.

Stay tuned—“Words for the Wise” is coming back!

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