Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
In Defoe’s Captain Singleton, published a year later, the eponymous pirate comes back home with new notions of equality and communal property. Indeed, as Defoe teaches us, the highest ideals…
Porphyrios (whale)
Porphyrios (Greek: Πορφύριος) was a large whale that harassed and sank ships in the waters near Constantinople in the sixth century. Active for over fifty years, Porphyrios caused great concern…
Eddie Sandifer
He did his best
The Longest Protest in the World
video by Greg Ruben
Look for ‘Slow Flower’ Bouquets, Plants Grown without Health-Harming Chemicals Used in Overseas Operations
Flowers are so present in our lives that we almost do not see them: sheathed in paper in every market, plunked in a vase on a table in any cafe.…
Shatila refugee camp was never meant to last this long
— or hold this many lives.
How far back in time
can you understand English?
Queer Readings of Rebecca
video by trade movies podcast
Chick Flicks
video by Trade Movie Podcast