From Pretoria to Peoria
There’s a neologism that I’d propose for the often-radical international activism that comes from non-coastal college towns that are too often easily ignored – midwestern cosmopolitanism.
There’s a neologism that I’d propose for the often-radical international activism that comes from non-coastal college towns that are too often easily ignored – midwestern cosmopolitanism.
On terrible pantyhose, bad sports writing, and the eternal kindness of the late great Franco Harris.
Mrs. M would not be given the courtesy of a new lease, as the building had changed management. Cachet G! was closing. Cold and calculated gentrification.
On Families, Department Stores, and America
Land-grant institutions are deeply ingrained into our everyday geographies, but as an Indigenous scholar, these places have a complicated legacy.
His life span and mine, thus far, cover 133 years – 1889 to 2022 – and we, my father and I, shared the planet for only 29 of those years before his death.
As much as Ohioans like me and others want to claim Morrison, her words belong to the world.
The past, present, and future coexist simultaneously in Sharpsburg, and for the moment, one hasn’t pushed the other out.
Toxins are not constrained by fences, boundary lines, or ownership deeds. Toxins don't care whether you actually live here or [...]
Andy Warhol meets the Breatharians.
Dispatch from Flint, Michigan: when COVID-19 hits home.
In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.