An Octogenarian Confronts the Ocean
When I was a child, we lived with the Mediterranean sea at our shoulders and not a day went by that we didn’t see it, or take a walk on the wet sand along the edge of the water. In fact, my mother used to...
The Electric City
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
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
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
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
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’
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.
