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Dressed—wearing the right clothes
Clothes, and our expectations for what we wear and when, are a strange thing to condemn one another for. Well, really, ever.
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Professional or Common? Clothes and the making of man
Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.
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Why being non-political is a worthy political act
The existential challenge for libraries and other institutions is that they are the subject of political attacks the public doesn’t support.
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Why “they started it” is the defense of the guilty
At once obvious and devious, focusing on who starts a conflict is a clever way to avoid thinking about who is exploiting it.
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Why is it so dangerous to be a kid in the United States?
The United States is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for children. So why are we so convinced that we can’t change that?
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Recording me in the street is antisocial behavior
We know that the cameras we use to protect ourselves invade privacy. But they have a bigger cost to us in public trust.
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The selective character of calling this a new precedent
When we establish a precedent, we are choosing to follow a certain path. We like to pretend that none of this is our choice.
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Learning to love politics and religion
We love to say that politics and religion doesn’t mix, but religion is political by definition. They can’t be separated.