Illuminating forgotten corners of history and using them to think about the present
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Where Did the “College Experience” Come From?
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It’s September, which means that the high school seniors that I teach will spend the next few months not just getting through their courses but navigating the bewildering maze of the American college admiss...
Singapore: Straits and Shadows
The chokepoint series continues (if you missed previous entries, you can start here)! This week, the city that cemented British control over the Strait of Malacca and the opium trade.
As always, thanks for reading. If you’re not a subscrib...
Portraits of Singapore
Snapshots from a complicated place
A post is coming on Sunday about Singapore more generally, as a key node in the British Empire, a chokepoint for trade, and a hub of the global opium trade. But today I wanted to spend a little bit of tim...
Men Cannot Estimate the Worth of Malacca
This week in our chokepoint series (if you missed previous entries, you can start here), we head to Southeast Asia, where the Strait of Malacca became the narrow portal through which trade and imperial ambitions flowed.
As always, thanks f...
How Do You Know That Document Is Real?
One of the side effects of living in the spray zone of an information firehose is that I’ve become paranoid about pretty much everything. I don’t answer calls from unknown callers. I don’t click on emails that look a little funny. I treat t...
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