Words For the Wise
Michael BalterPolitics, science, academia, #MeToo, investigations
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Spirit of Place: In the Land of the Lotus Eaters and that mythical visit by Odysseus.
A Djerba coffeehouse/ SuperManu/ Wikimedia Commons
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Note: Odysseus is in the news, or should I say in our cinemas. Here is a story about an island he may, or may not, have visited during his long Odyssey.
“If you want to rid...
The female gaze on Graham Platner.
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Whenever I want to understand an issue that has politics and sex and gender and men and women all wrapped up in some kind of tangled mess, I know that I can do a lot worse than turn to Rebecca Traister and see what she has to...
Perhaps it's just as well that the U.S. lost to Belgium. If it had won, the victory would have been forever tainted by Trump's intervention.
That’s it. That’s the post. I have no opinion about the justice or injustice of the red card suspension against Folarin Balogun. I do have an opinion about those “patriotic” Americans who continue to support Donald Trump and make excuses fo...
On Setting Oneself on Fire
Thích Quảng Đức, Saigon, June 11, 1963/ (Malcolm Browne / AP)
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Note: There is news this morning that a man wrapped himself in a Tibetan flag and set himself on fire outside UN headquarters in New York City. This brings to min...
Alleged mass dog killings at a "no-kill" sanctuary in California raise perennial questions about our responsibility to animals we have domesticated.
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This morning’s online edition of the New York Times included a disturbing story about a “no-kill” animal sanctuary in Fortuna, California, where authorities have found the bodies of 117 dogs, many with bullet fragments.
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Michael Balter is a journalist/journalism instructor based near NYC. Over 40+ years, he has written for Science, Scientific American, NYT, WaPo, SciAm, L.A. Times, CJR, Bon Appetit, Islands, SAPIENS, etc.
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