Happy Endings and So Forth
Happy ending! Roll credits. Fade to black. Americans love a happy ending…or, if they can’t have a triumph, an ending that concludes tragically but nobly: “Under tremendous pressure to deliver, … Continue reading
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Are We the Show?
Do you remember the 1998 film THE TRUMAN SHOW? Truman Burbank grows up in a universe that’s entirely fake. From his birth, he’s unwittingly the star of a TV reality … Continue reading
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What’s Next?
What if humanity were destroyed by aliens and you and your significant other missed the warnings because you had your cell phones and laptops off? Such is the premise of … Continue reading
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Using an Eraser
When you were a kid, did you ever wish you could just erase (or delete) somebody you didn’t like having in your life—as though you were living in a sketched … Continue reading
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We Are All Kindred
Considering all the intellectual and physical accomplishments women—both white and nonwhite—have made over the millennia, how have we been able to tolerate being secondary to men on so many social … Continue reading
