Weekly Links 8.25.19
A weekly update of content from around the web including modern takes on the ancient world, material related to this past week’s articles, and a look at what our editorial staff is reading.
This week:
Johanna Hanink questions America’s citizenship test.
On the SCS’s Classics Everywhere initiative.
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Donna Zuckerberg: I cannot eat to wait the Popeye's chicken sandwich that everyone is talking about; Leslie Jamison on childbirth after eating disorders; the upsetting history of people being hot for female nazis.
Sarah Scullin: Plagiarism is a booming business; 10 books about race to read instead of asking a POC to explain things to you; a case for defining generations in terms of technological innovations; this might be old news to some but this week I learned that it's possible to tattoo a penis—and that spoons are involved; this explanation of inverse imposter syndrome hits a little too close to home; The Book of Genesis's Genesis: The Genesis of the Band Genesis.
Yung In Chae: Wesley Morris on the appropriation of black music for the 1619 Project, the toxicity of call-out culture, the Art Spiegelman essay on superheroes and fascism that Marvel refused to publish because it insulted Donald Trump, Megan Greenwell, Deadspin’s former Editor-in-Chief, on digital media and the people who own it.
Tori Lee: The fake poop secrets you can learn by touring the Charmin factory; inside Facebook’s underground market for rare meat; the new American homeless; a glimpse inside elite Japanese abacus competitions; why RV’s are so ugly; a food pun competition where the yolk’s on you.
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