I have never understood the obligation to preserve something simply because it has survived.
Age does...
Entropy is frequently presented as a synonym for disorder. The shorthand is convenient, but it conceals...
There are things one remembers because they mattered, and things one remembers because nobody thought...
1. Commission
Catalogue entry: Adrian Vale, Woman at a Window, circa 1958. Oil on linen. Provenance dossier...
I watched Eating Our Way to Extinction expecting an argument about food. What I found was an argument...
There is a particular kind of question that becomes more interesting when we resist the temptation to...
Quiet is not a single measurable condition.
It can be thin enough to reveal every movement inside a room....
There are silences people mistake for surrender.
They see someone stop explaining and assume she has...
Silence is often mistaken for the space left after a sound. I have never trusted that definition. There...
I have never trusted nostalgia.
It is too well dressed.
It arrives smelling of rain, carrying old photographs,...
There is a difference between observing a change and understanding what has changed.
The first is easy.
The...
There are men whom history remembers because they changed it.
There are men whom history remembers because...