These selected episodes of This American Life emphasize the soft sciences and humanities as explored through oral history, texts, and primary sources. See below for a more detailed explanation of what I mean. If you regularly partake of This American Life via airwave radio or streaming telephonics-based radio, I encourage you to donate so that…
The Library of Congress classification for anarchism is HX 821-970.9 and Dewey is 335. I know these because the clicks of a keyboard once made me a representative of the Society of American Anarchists–Student Chapter. I was mistaken as an anarchist following a meeting run by a Madison, Wisconsin bank. In the spring of 2011…
Like many people of my generation I read Lois Lowry’s 1993 dystopian children’s novel The Giver for school. Without the Internet or a cabal of busybodies I was ignorant of any controversy surrounding its inclusion in middle school reading lists; to this day it continues to be among a small but pathologically challenged collection of…
The Queen-inspired musical We Will Rock You is conducting its 10th anniversary tour throughout 2013 and into 2014. I had the pleasure of seeing it opening night at the Hippodrome in Baltimore on October 15. Although some of the writing and themes did not sit right with me, on the whole I enjoyed myself but…
The 2013 restoration of the meeting hall for the Annapolis City Council Chambers, as part of a $521,000 renovation and restoration of City Hall attracted a fair bit of coverage this past year as Aldermen and private citizens gave their two cents. In a historic city such as Annapolis where the character and provenance of…
Counterfactual Archivist 