The Rectification of Names

  Stamp Act riots, Boston, 1765. Can't find a decent credit , but I think it's from Britain. Reading a truly remarkable essay in...

Rafflesia in Sabah, East Malaysia. Why I Hate the New York Times, the Rafflesia of media-criticism blogging as I call it, after the ...

Batocchio Super in Resistencia, Argentina. This year's Jon Swift Memorial Roundup (named for the great late blogger Al Weisel/Mo...

Stuff you might think about reading: Meme via Reclaim Reform . Jersey Jazzman 's fond farewell to Obama's worst cabinet appoi...

Julian Bond (1940-2015) organizing sometime in the early 1960s, via Georgia Encylopedia . R.I.P. Julian Bond. NPR had a beautiful inter...

Photograph by Francesca Woodman, from Daily Poetics, February 2012 . On Holocaust Remembrance Day this, by Corey Robin , with its assoc...

Photo by Mike Groll/AP . Merry Andrew Today's story in the Times about Andrew Cuomo's Moreland Commission, which he set up a...