More conversations and emails. I say the wrong thing. Life is unfair. People who work very hard and do the right thing sometimes go under: t...

The only time I ever thought of suicide was in a graduate program -- not at Cornell, fortunately, so no bridge available. Every other time I...

Typical of the African situation were the Mende, who kept considerable numbers of slaves for both social and economic reasons and on the who...

The class of the lowly is the source from which the master class draws its livelihood and leisure. Thraldom is a degree of cannibalism. It i...

Let us begin with the Tupinamba of South America, a primitive, warlike group among whom slavery existed in its most elementary for. Economic...

not waving

The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim a...

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There's a piece by Wyatt Mason in NYRB on Lipsky's book about David Foster Wallace, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself...

to be or not to be

TAR ART RAT and The Popeye Journals both had posts on Owen Wilson's alleged suicide attempt. TPJ talks about the stigma of mental illnes...

Philosophers and Psychologists

I was once a Junior Lecturer in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. One day the philosophy tutor, Kathy Wilkes, came back to lunch ...