Weekly Links 9.28.19
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:
Huge congratulations to Emily Wilson on winning a MacArthur!
Ox-drawn plow to blame for inequality in Eurasia beginning in 4000 BCE.
The question of race in Beowulf.
On volunteering/sometimes saying yes.
The rules of the diversity and inclusion racket.
A diversity and inclusion statement for liberal studies.
Have extra textbooks or other Classics books lying around? Donate them to the Sportula’s free textbook exchange and help them connect with a student who needs them!
Donna Zuckerberg: Congressional fanfic is so compelling yet disturbing; what one writer learned from creating a tournament to determine the internet's worst dedicated fanbase; all nonfiction books should probably have a fact-checker.
Sarah Scullin: In what may come as a shock to some of our biggest fans, women don't have to be nice to be worth listening to (Jessica Valenti); those old Lysol ads were advertising contraception; Malcolm Gladwell goes down a rabbit hole; a collection of Rob Lowe's kids making fun of his selfies; a review of Louis C.K.'s new standup show; mother rage; a bts video about the origin of The Good Place
Yung In Chae: The revolutionary mind of Ursula K. Le Guin, the cancel culture con, you’re not a sapiosexual, you’re just annoying, realistic cartoons about love, the mechanics of TikTok, why it matters that Chanel Miller (a.k.a. Emily Doe) is Asian American.
Tori Lee: The moderate middle is a myth; weeknight dinners around the world; how one woman discovered she had topographical agnosia, or “place blindness”; a feminist woman’s perspective on growing apart from her red pill brother; the Jessicas are turning 30!
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