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How Stovemakers Helped Invent Modern Marketing

Howell J. Harris JSTOR
The history of stovemaking in the nineteenth century, as businesses turned from small to mass manufacturing, is the story of the making and selling of the first universal consumer durable.

poetry

F Is for Fear

Heidi Seaborn Rattle
Poet Heidi Seaborn (a distinctive surname) envisions a death at sea by strangulation, though it didn’t quite happen that way.

poetry

History Repeats Itself

W. D. Ehrhart
A poet sensitive to injustice, W.D. Ehrhart projects a “broken-hearted world without end.”

books

Art’s Social Forms

Josefine Wikström Radical Philosophy
Reviewer Wikström examines this well-known cultural critic's massive, ambitious, yet flawed study of post World War II U.S. culture and its influence.

food

Climate Savior or ‘Monsanto of the Sea’?

Bridget Huber The Fern
Seaweed farming is being hyped as a major weapon in the fight against climate change. But skeptics say the rush to build industrial-scale operations risks unintended consequences. By Bridget Huber, June 1, 2023

poetry

It’s Different Now

Christopher Clauss Radical Teacher
“I just want to teach science,” says New Hampshire poet Christopher Clauss, but his responsibilities also range from the absurd to the dangerous.

books

Martin Luther King Understood Solidarity

Michael K. Honey Jacobin
Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that he and the freedom movement endured. It largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor
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