Apology, Love, Secrets, Culture
And, of course, politics
You thought modern anti-vaxxers were bad……
Color etching depicting Edward Jenner vaccinating patients who subsequently develop features of cows. Image credit: James Gillray, 1802/Public Domain Review
Race
Roy L. Brooks, “When Saying `I’m Sorry’ Is Not Enough: The anatomy of an apology.” (May 5, 2021)
Classics Reconsidered
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, “The Communism of Love: How the COVID pandemic has revealed anew the importance of Marx’s Gemeinwesen.” (May 5, 2021)
Memoir
Yvonne M. Vissing, “The Secret Life of Colonel Sanders: My grandmother knew him.” (May 4, 2021)
Books
Susan Yelavich, “Thinking Design Through Literature: Identity—the cultural politics of things and places.” (May 5, 2021)
Nicole Lynn Lewis, “Inheritance: Pregnant Girl—A story of teen motherhood, college, and creating a better future for young families.” (May 4, 2021)
Columnists
John Stoehr, “The stink of treason clings to the Republican Party: Big profit-seeking corporations can smell it, same as everyone else.” (May 5, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “A New Battleground for American History: How the classroom has been politicized.” (May 5, 2021)
Pat Garafolo, “Apple’s Deal with North Carolina Is a Worm in the State’s Finances for Decades to Come: Companies do not need to be bribed to set up shop in the state’s Research Triangle.” (May 5, 2021)
Claire Potter, “Why is Caitlyn Jenner Running for Governor of California? Recall campaigns, invented to remove incompetent or corrupt politicians, are now a conservative tactic to reverse Democratic electoral victories.” (May 5, 2021)