Year: 2020
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I watched “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939) last night. Despite the many differences to today’s world and the oversimplification of the state political machine, the politics in the film strike me as relevant to our own time. Thing is, though, it would probably resonate with Americans regardless of ideological…
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Quotation from Stephanie McCrummen on the masses of people mingling and shopping, pandemic be damned. i
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Photograph: Cold-brewing tea in three one-liter beer mugs on a windowsill.
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Via JSTOR Daily, which describes an 1840 pamphlet advocating “a four-pronged approach to public healthcare that sounds remarkably like our own.”
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Quotation: Alex Ross on the United States that let Thomas Mann in and then later drove him away.
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Photograph by Dorothea Lange from 1938 accompanied by revealing quotations from a father and son on the cusp of leaving the land.
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Quotation exemplifying the close connection between human social connections and what we “know.”
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“Migrant worker looking through back window of automobile near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma,” 1939.