Tag: language

• Martin Luther King, Interrelatedness, Haiti

  over 2 years ago

  Lea Carpenter in Think, See, Feel

  King wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in April 1963, almost five years, to the day, before his assassination. The letter remains resonant for its poetry (“injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”) as well as for what’s implied in King’s very act of writing it: A letter can matter ... Read More

• What Gossip Girl Could Learn from the Grateful Dead

  over 2 years ago

  Lea Carpenter in Think, See, Feel

  Why should anyone care about Gossip Girl? Perhaps because it's an excellent escape from the depth and complexity of the Messy Rest of the World. Perhaps because the kids are pretty. Or perhaps because it reminds viewers who are no longer (or who are not yet) eighteen what it feels like to be that ... Read More