I’ve been working on other projects, so links are pretty light this week.

And our landscaping is done and as soon as I schedule this, I’m off to order a whole bunch of plants. It’s going to be great.

The American Experiment in Exile
In Defense of Cultural Criticism in Trump’s America
Shyness: A (Quiet) Cultural History
The Most Popular Color On The Web
I Heart New York (I should mention that this piece is about shopping for and then eating hearts)
Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast I’ve been watching Bourdain’s Parts Unknown on Netflix while I’m working out and it’s a fantastic show. He doesn’t gloss over unpleasant truths and the episode about the Congo brought me to tears more than once. It was incredibly hard to watch and I don’t think any of the times I had to read Heart of Darkness that the extent of the horrors perpetrated upon the Congolese were ever made explicit. It was all very abstracted and I am retroactively angry with my teachers for glossing over these unpleasant and hard truths–it erased a critical part of the book’s context. Anyhow, I’m enjoying the show tremendously and recommend it.