he Dam Busters: retelling a heroic story It is a plausible criticism of those of us who have worked as paid, campus-based academics in the Western world that pressure to publish research of “utility” obliges us to make judgments in matters about which we are poorly equipped by life experience.
A pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer, mid 1870s from the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library (via Wikicommons)
The business of relationships Has there ever been a society as obsessed as modern English-speaking Western societies are by “relationships,” “love,” and “families” as conventionally defined?
