Feed Your Baby Like a Fascist A balance and a clock are essential for industrialised motherhood Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doesn’t work for hungry infants
A Restaurant’s Reckoning Is it OK to eat at Piggie Park? “The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one’s ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn’t possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.” Continue Reading →
Empire and grain From prehistory to today, empires grew on their ability to tax grains The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today. Continue Reading →
Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world Continue Reading →
Persephone’s secret The Eleusinian Mysteries and the making of the modern economy Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about? Continue Reading →