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Narcissistic, Ego-Driven Editors Promising the World? Yup.

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 13, 2019

A Brief Eerie History of How the Wind Makes Us Crazy

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Lyall Watson on the Ill Effects of Heavy Weather

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The Intoxicating Other Worlds of the Encyclopedia

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David Carlin on Absent Fathers and Missing Histories

By David Carlin | August 13, 2019

On the Great Old White Guy Vocal Fry Panic of 2013

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Actually, When We Take Vocal Patterns Seriously, It Tells Us a Lot

By Amanda Montell | August 12, 2019

Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

Why Were the 1970s So... Weird?

When the Counterculture Optimism Receded, Things Got Ugly

By Erik Davis | August 12, 2019

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

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How the Long Persecution<br> of the Rhineland Jews Shaped Karl Marx

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