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…
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…
Counterfactual Archivist 