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How Lonely Sits The City, Part I
Yuanmingyuan (“the Old Summer Palace”) was a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing established during the Qing Dynasty. It was burned down by Europeans in 1860. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons,...
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Do-Good Nation
When, Whitney Sha asks, is activism in high school and college merely affected? Photo courtesy of VISIONS Service Adventures via Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0. One night after dinner, I was walking...
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A Paradox of Grand Designs: Thomas Jefferson and his Empire for Liberty
Wading through his idealism and hypocrisy, Harrison Blackman tracks the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.Statue of Thomas Jefferson at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. LIC-CC...
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How Lonely Sits The City, Part II
Apartment buildings in the Bronx, 1970. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. (The following is the second essay of a two-part series by Aaron Robertson exploring the history, aesthetics, and appeal of ruins....
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From Province to Province: Alan Lomax and the Folk Music of Old
Photo courtesy of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. ∞ “Dante was once ten years old. He was a remarkable child. He babbled sonnets and rondeaux which revealed his nature. Do you put...
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The Literary Pursuit of Happiness
Photo courtesy of Flickr via Taylor, ‘Reflecting on a Window Pane’ under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0. Image was modified. This is a...
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Everything is Narrative: Why the Identities of Anonymous Musicians Matter
We don’t know much about dvsn. We think they are a two-person music group, and we think that half of the group is “Hotline Bling” producer Paul Jefferies, otherwise known as Nineteen85. We don’t know...
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