Make Them Cry “Uncle”
Essay by Arbogast | To the Greeks, wrestling, or πάλη, was the most popular and vital sport—the spectacle that turned men into immortal gods
read moreEssay by Arbogast | To the Greeks, wrestling, or πάλη, was the most popular and vital sport—the spectacle that turned men into immortal gods
read moreFiction by Panurge | Ahh, Frances! I remember our honeymoon. Here, on the floor of another hotel room, I recall the beginning of our marriage – the disgrace that was our union. Rolling around on the plush carpet of the – I must say profoundly clean – hotel room floor, I remember it all!
read moreFiction by Ryan Gillam | I got into a fight with my friend Trevor that day. We were eleven. I can’t remember the reason for the fight
read moreEssay by the Librarian of Celaeno | Sam Houston is justly famous as the founder of Texas, first as a republic, and then, after nearly a decade of independence, as a state in the Union
read moreFiction by Leo Vladimirsky | The Puppy Love clinic on Prospect Park West sat between a chain coffee shop and one of those nostalgia studios where people went to make apps the old-fashioned way. As Madison crossed the street, she noticed that the sign above the door was flickering with cubic artifacts, words flipping every few seconds
read moreFiction by Br0dysseus | His phone distilled the day’s events: crown moldings, placards for Maulbertsch, hazy steins of beer. The last picture showed him and Cullen. They were seated in a velour booth, faces jaundiced by a bromidic candelabra. Terry wore an azure turtleneck, Cullen—an oxford button-down
read morePulp fiction by Stanley Arthur | The Pacific night draped itself in a cloak of mystery as Private Jack “Havoc” Donovan prowled the shadowy recesses of the small island where he was stationed. The Island was home to a classified nuclear missile launch facility where the personnel had been handpicked based on an unknown criteria
read moreEssay by Jay K. Chesterton | When not busy conducting research or teaching behaviorism and experimental psychology courses at Harvard, you could find B. F. Skinner tinkering. He invented lab recording devices, teaching machines, and even—during World War II—a nose-cone habitat that amounted to a pigeon-guided missile system
read moreEssay by Semmelweis | There’s a new 4K print of Pulp Fiction showing in the theaters. It’s one of my favorite films and has been ever since I first saw it in the theater in 1994
read moreEssay by Global Guru | To secure its position as a global hegemon and outpace China in the race for AI supremacy, the United States must invest in strengthening its intellectual, industrial, and research capabilities. Success demands more than importing a handful of elite foreign engineers: it requires building a robust, homegrown pipeline of skilled professionals to drive innovation and sustain long-term competitiveness
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