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  • Before We Panic Over AI…

    Before We Panic Over AI…0

    If you spent any time consuming news media these past few weeks, you’re aware of the AI fears flooding the world. Doom-laden predictions saturate the headlines, and each day another somewhat frazzled, pale-faced, bespectacled whistleblower emerges from a dark server room to prophesy the end. Panic over AI’s alleged world-ending capabilities has been smoldering under

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  • Before Shakespeare There Was Chaucer

    Before Shakespeare There Was Chaucer0

    Before William Shakespeare there was Geoffrey Chaucer. The Bard borrowed at least one of his plots from his predecessor (“The Two Noble Kinsmen,” was based on the “Knight’s Tale”). Both English greats were, it could be said, refashioning Homer’s Shield of Achilles as they painted elaborate portraits of their entire societies, from the lowliest corners to

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  • Before Indiana Jones came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron

    Before Indiana Jones came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron0

    Before Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia, came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron. Born in 1731, Anquetil was the original Orientalist-adventurer: a European scholarly expert of Asian culture who also embodied bold, heroic action in the field. His speciality was the roots of ancient religions in Asia. He was the first European to translate the Avesta, a

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  • Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?

    Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?0

    Class divides and racial divides are passé. Now, there’s bedtime reading inequality. In a recent article for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, journalist Joe Gelonesi asked whether loving families are an “unfair advantage.” The piece asked whether we should level the academic playing field among all children, by having all parents stop bedtime reading in order

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  • Becky Kraker, V*ccine Survivor

    Becky Kraker, V*ccine Survivor10

    Becky Kraker suffered from depression most of her life, but a couple years ago got medication that helped. For 18 months she felt like she finally had her life together, especially since the dissipating depression dramatically strengthened her relationship with her son. Then she got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, her mental and physical health went

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  • Because Our Sidewalks Need Fixing

    Because Our Sidewalks Need Fixing0

    Imagine you are strolling along your downtown sidewalks. To your left you see a vacant lot overrun with weeds. The street to your right isn’t safe and needs to be avoided. A fellow across the block is using hard drugs in broad daylight. There are loads of shuttered buildings and, besides you, very little foot

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