“Is Adin going to be drafted?” asked my 14 year-old son Kyrian on hearing the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Adin is 18 and has registered, by sexist mandate [1], for selected service and, clearly, my younger son is concerned. He is not an overtly emotional young man, so for him to express anyContinue reading “The Moth Invades”
Category Archives: Opinions
Disgust
Molly Young covered the topic of disgust in her December 27, 2021 article in The New York Times Magazine, “How Disgust Explains Everything.” Her protagonist is Paul Rozin, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Young’s article is a quick introduction to the topic and Rozin’s work is important as an expansion ofContinue reading “Disgust”
Christmas, 1796
The ghost of Christmas past haunts us. Most of the Christmas traditions we Americans cherish are refinements and reinventions of the late Victorian era: Christmas trees, stockings and carols didn’t much exist before the 1840s. They were formalized during the reign of Queen Victoria, who, with Prince Albert, popularized the decorated evergreen and the domesticContinue reading “Christmas, 1796”
Protective Arts 