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#creepytings’s spoor in Rocky Mountain National Park. (Photo by Bill Stock, via nationalparkstraveler.com)

Vandalism in the national parks

The impulse to defile

What’s art, what’s vandalism, and when is it just time for the human race to put a lid on itself? The story of the woman who decided to leave her very personal imprint on some of our greatest national parks raises the question anew.

Robert Zaller

Oct 28, 2014 Essays 5 minute read

Like mother, like daughter: Agnes Moorehead and Elizabeth Montgomery in “Bewitched.” (© 1964, 1965, renewed 1992, 1993 CPT Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Witches in popular culture

Witches didn't disappear in the modern era — they're still alive and well in popular culture.

Chris Predmore

Oct 28, 2014 Essays 5 minute read

Trigger unhappy: warnings that get in the way

Last spring, the concept of “trigger warnings” — long used in feminist chat rooms and self-help blogspaces to flag users about graphic content related to sexual assault or rape — spilled over to the academic world. Is our sensitivity to others' trauma really helping?

Anndee Hochman

Oct 24, 2014 Essays 5 minute read

Is Tracy Morgan missing a teachable moment? (Photo by David Shankbone, via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Walmart and seat belts

Tracy Morgan and Princess Diana

If we had learned anything from Princess Diana's death, would Tracy Morgan have been wearing a seat belt when his limo was mowed down by a Walmart truck?

Susan Beth Lehman

Oct 21, 2014 Essays 4 minute read

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Just do what, exactly? (Photo by Wallstreethotrod, via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Closing ranks behind Ray Rice

One consequence of choosing our role models based on things that have no intrinsic correlation to character is that sometimes these people mess up.

Maria Thompson Corley

Sep 16, 2014 Essays 6 minute read

The first Shakespeare collection (1623): The amazing survival of ink on paper.

Treasures from the Bodleian in New York

The brainiest room in the world

Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library encloses as much of the human mind and spirit as a single room can contain. Maybe even more than a computer.

Robert Zaller

Sep 09, 2014 Essays 5 minute read

Remembering Joan Rivers (three)

The person and the persona

Joan Rivers had to continually perfect her face because that face had become the mask of comedy itself.

Thom Nickels

Sep 07, 2014 Essays 4 minute read

Joan Rivers in 2009. (Photo by Underbelly Limited via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Remembering Joan Rivers (two)

Fashioning a persona

The fact that Joan Rivers never reduced herself to buffoon persona is what I admire most. She gave female comedians permission to be lovely and funny.

Susan Beth Lehman

Sep 07, 2014 Essays 3 minute read

In-your-face humor. (Photo of Joan Rivers in 2009 by dhnaquin67 via Creative Commons/Flickr.)

Remembering Joan Rivers (one)

What we love to hate about Joan Rivers

There is a certain poetic justice to her death at the hands of a surgeon, under anesthesia, knowing no pain or the true indignities of old age. And how can we not love her for that?