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The Electric City

Kashana Cauley
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
This story originally appeared in and is re-published with gratitude from The Common.   We bought Detroit because even after buying ourselves new houses and cars, $253 million in lottery winnings...

Top Philosophy Reads for Summer

Angela Roothaan
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History, Philosophy
Do you sometimes worry about the large-scale destruction of tropical forests, about failing states around the world, or the neo-colonial attitude of rich countries in responding to migration from many poor...

Leaving Walter

Lori Ostlund
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
This story originally appeared on The Common. Copyright © 2015 by Lori Ostlund. From the forthcoming book After the Parade by Lori Ostlund to be published by Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc....

How Philosophers Approach Food Ethics

Paul B. Thompson
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Philosophy, Society & Culture
Hippo Reads is proud to be working with Oxford University Press to highlight unmissable excerpts from recent and upcoming titles. Today’s post is reprinted from From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone...

Swimming Lessons

rob mclennan
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
Tomorrow didn’t ask me what was, what will be my life. Nicole Brossard, Intimate Journal 1. She was loathe to admit, but she dreaded the lake.             Instead, what compelled her: their...

Fighting On and Singing Along with Prince’s ‘Baltimore’

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History, Society & Culture
Prince's song “Baltimore” calls for justice – but it also calls for dancing. And while it might seem incongruous to want to get people up and dancing at a moment like this, the sound of this kind of music - and the way it moves people to move their bodies and come together – can have political power.

Reichelt’s Parachute

Ian Bassingthwaighte
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
This story originally appeared in and is re-published with gratitude from The Common, Issue 8. His name was Gustave Eiffel, and he built his giant French tower because it was impossible—that is what...
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