In 1976, an extraordinary image was found in the attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum: an old photograph of an enslaved American, known as Papa Renty. The image has recently come back into the news because […]
I’ve become interested over the past couple of years in my students’ shrinking vocabularies. It’s just anecdotal, but I fancy that I’ve seen an incredible and radical shrinking up of my students’ words. When I […]
Strange as it may sound, C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) hated cars. And newspapers. And zippers. Really. What are for most of us the banal and indispensable necessities of daily life, were, for Lewis, icons of modernity. […]
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