[{"id":311950,"date":"2026-09-21T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311950"},"modified":"2026-09-21T02:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:17:21","slug":"poem-by-jim-culleny-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/poem-by-jim-culleny-97.html","title":{"rendered":"Poem by Jim Culleny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u2014<em>Yom Kippur, 9\/21\/2026<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Atonement<\/h2>\n<p>To find the means to a mend<\/p>\n<p>To try a new take to forsake a mistake<\/p>\n<p>To unfold the past and straighten its bend<\/p>\n<p>To un-muddy a pool and make it clear<\/p>\n<p>To lift the flat rock of my self and let the sun do its work<\/p>\n<p>To yank the inside out and give it some air<\/p>\n<p>To make a whole man of the stuff of a jerk<\/p>\n<p>To morph a long fall into a hairpin turn<\/p>\n<p>To lance a boil and do what\u2019s best for us<\/p>\n<p>To kindle the badly done and watch it burn<\/p>\n<p>To unbury the past and make its corpse a Lazarus<\/p>\n<p>To sew a split in one cloth now two<\/p>\n<p>To impossibly do what the humble do<\/p>\n<p>To end a grudge and make us whole again,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span> At onement then<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>by Jim Culleny<br \/>\n<\/em><em>9\/13\/13<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Yom Kippur, 9\/21\/2026 Atonement To find the means to a mend To try a new take to forsake a mistake To unfold the past and straighten its bend To un-muddy a pool and make it clear To lift the flat rock of my self and let the sun do its work To yank the inside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mondaymagazine","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312015,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311950\/revisions\/312015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311842,"date":"2026-09-20T16:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311842"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:28:27","slug":"the-carapace-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/the-carapace-cracks.html","title":{"rendered":"The Carapace Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Geuss in <em>The Ideas Letter<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">All of us who live in Western societies have the sense that our world is unravelling and collapsing around us. This can be seen in almost any area one investigates. In international politics, the idea that the international realm is subject to some kind of law, even of the most minimal kind, may always have been more a pious hope than a reality, but now it has become just a bad joke. Domestically, our political systems lurch between massive immobilism and utterly capricious, wanton acts of institutional destruction. Gone is the idea that they automatically ensure a smooth and orderly transition in power from one group of office-holders to another. It has become difficult, if not impossible, to hold that gradual reform within the system is, as it were, its default position. Most importantly, we seem to be incapable of producing political figures who have even a tenuous ability to look reality in the face or a basic competence in dealing with the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This dysfunctionality characterizes not just politics, but the technical, economic, and military domains as well. Our civil infrastructure is falling apart, and the military is no better off: ships and tanks built at great expense malfunction unpredictably. US military forces, on which funds have been lavished for decades, show themselves in a very vivid way to be significantly less irresistible than advertised. The stock market has become a la-la land where prices keep rising despite real economic stagnation. Where is the promised prosperity? Do any parents now still assume that their children\u2019s lives will be qualitatively better than theirs?<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theideasletter.org\/essay\/the-carapace-cracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Geuss in The Ideas Letter: All of us who live in Western societies have the sense that our world is unravelling and collapsing around us. This can be seen in almost any area one investigates. In international politics, the idea that the international realm is subject to some kind of law, even of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311844,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311842\/revisions\/311844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311850,"date":"2026-09-20T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311850"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:52:55","slug":"class-struggle-and-the-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/class-struggle-and-the-new-york-mets.html","title":{"rendered":"Class Struggle and the New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hubbell interviews A.M. Gittlitz in <em>The Ideas Letter Podcast<\/em>, hosted over at the <em>New Books Network<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social history. Writing with what the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> calls \u201cthe lunatic panache of a utopian manifesto,\u201d Gittlitz weaves together the genealogies of American\u2019s Pastime and the complex histories of race, class, ethnicity, and politics in the nation\u2019s largest city. In this conversation, he recounts the many occasions when the tortuous trajectory of the Mets (and its precursors) collides with the major events of the metropolis and the nation. Civil rights workers, labor organizers, urban master-builders, corrupt politicians, and titans of finance and industry all make cameo appearances in his fascinating account, alongside legendary players from Jackie Robinson to Cleon Jones, Tom Seaver, and Francisco Lindor.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/class-struggle-and-the-new-york-mets-a-conversation-with-am-gittlitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hubbell interviews A.M. Gittlitz in The Ideas Letter Podcast, hosted over at the New Books Network: With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social history. Writing with what the Wall Street Journal calls \u201cthe lunatic panache of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311851,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311850\/revisions\/311851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311848,"date":"2026-09-20T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311848"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:39:31","slug":"victory-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/victory-in-defeat.html","title":{"rendered":"Victory in Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Lynch in <em>Sidecar<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats\u2019 (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre. Earlier in the evening, party faithful had swayed to \u2018Dancing Queen\u2019 under purple and pink lights, and mimicked Trump\u2019s signature fist pumping to \u2018YMCA\u2019. But as exit poll results started to trickle in, the atmosphere turned. The news was disappointing, if not entirely unexpected: on 17.5 per cent of the vote, the SD had for the first time lost ground in a Riksdag election. Four years ago, as supporters gathered at a waterfront hotel in Nacka to celebrate the party\u2019s historic breakthrough on 20.5 per cent \u2013 making it the second-largest party in Sweden after the Social Democrats \u2013 exuberance reigned. Led by Jimmie \u00c5kesson, whose modern, relaxed presentation is credited with bringing it from the far-right fringe into the mainstream, the SD seemed unstoppable. But on Sunday, the sorry sight of disco lights on an emptying dance floor seemed worlds away from that insurgent energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2022, the party\u2019s strong finish gave it considerable bargaining power in negotiations with the traditional bourgeois parties \u2013 the Moderates, Liberals and Christian Democrats. The resulting arrangement was formalized in the Tid\u00f6\u00a0Agreement: the centre-right parties formed a government, led by the Moderate Party\u2019s Ulf Kristersson, while the SD would remain outside the cabinet but support it in parliament in return for substantial influence over policy. \u00c5kesson later made it clear that he did not expect to remain on the outside forever, and during this year\u2019s campaign Kristersson pledged that if the Tid\u00f6 coalition prevailed, the SD would at last be awarded ministerial portfolios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">After a nail-biting vote count, the SD\u2019s ministerial dreams were not to be. The governing right bloc lost to the centre-left opposition headed by former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson\u2019s Social Democrats \u2013 together with the Left Party, Greens and the Centre Party \u2013 by less than a percentage point, 48.9 per cent to 49.6. The distribution of seats was a mirror image of 2022, with 173 going to the Tid\u00f6 parties and 176 to their opponents. Yet given the razor-thin margin of victory, the winner was also a loser of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/newleftreview.org\/sidecar\/posts\/victory-in-defeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Lynch in Sidecar: The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats\u2019 (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre. Earlier in the evening, party faithful had swayed to \u2018Dancing Queen\u2019 under purple and pink lights, and mimicked Trump\u2019s signature fist pumping to \u2018YMCA\u2019. But as exit poll results started to trickle in, the atmosphere turned. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311849,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311848\/revisions\/311849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311845,"date":"2026-09-20T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311845"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:36:04","slug":"disaster-and-constraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/disaster-and-constraint.html","title":{"rendered":"Disaster and Constraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay, and Advait Arun in <em>Polycrisis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Catastrophe hit the Himalayas last month when ice and rock collapsed in the Langtang National Park. The ensuing debris and floodwaters travelled 100 kilometers down the Lende Khole river, a tributary of the Bhote Koshi, destroying villages, roads, bridges, hydropower facilities, and other critical infrastructure in its path. More than 1,300 people have been <a href=\"https:\/\/english.nepalnews.com\/s\/nation\/bhote-koshi-flood-update-1367-bodies-recovered-around-5100-still-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed dead<\/a> and 5,100 are still missing in Nepal; numbers in Tibet are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/31\/china-concealing-scale-nepal-flood-disaster-say-tibet-campaigners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more difficult<\/a> to ascertain. Scientists are still investigating the precise mechanics of the disaster, but consensus is forming that it was the result of a landslide\u2015perhaps caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2026\/09\/01\/world\/asia\/nepal-flash-floods-landslide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bedrock made unstable<\/a> by glacial retreat and its attendant meltwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hindu Kush Himalaya glaciers lost 12 percent of their area and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icimod.org\/press-releases\/hindu-kush-himalaya-glaciers-losing-ice-at-double-the-rate-since-2000-new-icimod-report-confirm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9 percent of their ice<\/a> between 2000 and 2020, and glaciers and permafrost around the world are being weakened by global heating. The <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gto.12526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequency<\/a> of complex, cascading events in mountain landscapes such as these is only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-026-03352-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected to increase<\/a> in coming years. \u201cLandslides have been occurring as long as the mountains have been building,\u201d G\u00f6ran Ekstr\u00f6m, a seismologist at Columbia University\u2019s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-scientists-unraveled-cause-devastating-flood-tibet-and-nepal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>Science<\/em><\/a>. But \u201cin areas where glaciers are disappearing, these landslides are occurring more frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As the rescue mission for the thousands of people still missing continues, Nepal, which is among Asia\u2019s poorest countries, now faces the challenge of recovery and rebuilding. How to pay for that remains an open question.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/phenomenalworld.org\/analysis\/disaster-and-constraint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay, and Advait Arun in Polycrisis: Catastrophe hit the Himalayas last month when ice and rock collapsed in the Langtang National Park. The ensuing debris and floodwaters travelled 100 kilometers down the Lende Khole river, a tributary of the Bhote Koshi, destroying villages, roads, bridges, hydropower facilities, and other critical infrastructure in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311847,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311845\/revisions\/311847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311908,"date":"2026-09-20T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311908"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:20:10","slug":"sunday-poem-495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/sunday-poem-495.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hatred<\/h2>\n<div class=\"row mt-5 mb-5\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-12 poem-content\">See how efficient it still is,<br \/>\nhow it keeps itself in shape\u2014<br \/>\nour century&#8217;s hatred.<br \/>\nHow easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.<br \/>\nHow rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.It&#8217;s not like other feelings.<br \/>\nAt once both older and younger.<br \/>\nIt gives birth itself to the reasons<br \/>\nthat give it life.<br \/>\nWhen it sleeps, it&#8217;s never eternal rest.<br \/>\nAnd sleeplessness won&#8217;t sap its strength; it feeds it.<br \/>\nOne religion or another &#8211;<br \/>\nwhatever gets it ready, in position.<br \/>\nOne fatherland or another &#8211;<br \/>\nwhatever helps it get a running start.<br \/>\nJustice also works well at the outset<br \/>\nuntil hate gets its own momentum going.<br \/>\nHatred. Hatred.<br \/>\nIts face twisted in a grimace<br \/>\nof erotic ecstasy\u2026Hatred is a master of contrast-<br \/>\nbetween explosions and dead quiet,<br \/>\nred blood and white snow.<br \/>\nAbove all, it never tires<br \/>\nof its leitmotif &#8211; the impeccable executioner<br \/>\ntowering over its soiled victim.It&#8217;s always ready for new challenges.<br \/>\nIf it has to wait awhile, it will.<br \/>\nThey say it&#8217;s blind. Blind?<br \/>\nIt has a sniper&#8217;s keen sight<br \/>\nand gazes unflinchingly at the future<br \/>\nas only it can.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><br \/>\nby Wislawa Szymborska<\/em><br \/>\n<em>from<\/em> Poemist, 2 July 1923<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hatred See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape\u2014 our century&#8217;s hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.It&#8217;s not like other feelings. At once both older and younger. It gives birth itself to the reasons that give it life. When it sleeps, it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311913,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311908\/revisions\/311913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311861,"date":"2026-09-20T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311861"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:20:57","slug":"oliver-jones-1934-2026-jazz-pianist-and-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/oliver-jones-1934-2026-jazz-pianist-and-composer.html","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Jones (1934 &#8211; 2026) Jazz Pianist and Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oliver Jones and Oscar Peterson - Just Friends - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WluR9L6ijAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? 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Yet there is always work waiting, the kind that keeps a home alive and somehow appears to \u2018do itself.\u2019\u2019\u2019 The house in <em>My Mother Doesn\u2019t Work <\/em>becomes a stage for this invisible cycle of work, full of dirty socks, dishes, erupting mountains of plastic toys. One sole figure is responsible for taming this frenzied environment\u2014Steinepreis, whose body is pictured at work throughout various scenes of domestic labor.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/articles\/olga-steinepreis-my-mother-doesn-t-work-motherhood-and-invisible-labor-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? 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Yet there is always work waiting, the kind that keeps a home alive and somehow appears to \u2018do itself.\u2019\u2019\u2019 The house in My Mother Doesn\u2019t Work becomes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311901,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311897\/revisions\/311901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311892,"date":"2026-09-20T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311892"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:02:08","slug":"is-culture-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/is-culture-alive.html","title":{"rendered":"Is culture alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Loh in\u00a0<em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"dcr-1iwzucl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311894 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3-360x288.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3-360x288.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/images-3.jpeg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>O<\/span>n Mount Athos, in northern Greece, a monk rises before dawn to sing the same office that has been sung on that mountain for more than 1,000 years. He learned it from older monks who came before him, who learned it in turn in an unbroken chain stretching back to Athanasios the Athonite, in AD963.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Over the centuries, individual monks have come and gone, and yet their chants, prayers, oaths, costumes and ceremonies endure. This persistence is remarkable and revealing: cultural traditions endure because they share a fundamental property with biological organisms. They are alive. Not metaphorically, but literally.\u00a0I believe that human culture isn\u2019t just an accidental add-on to organic life; rather, it\u2019s a separate expression of life in its own right. But first we should define our terms. What is life? There isn\u2019t just one answer; indeed, the lack of a clear definition has become a kind of bad joke among life scientists, who can\u2019t quite agree what it is they actually study.<\/p>\n<p>More<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/sep\/20\/is-culture-alive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by <a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/support-3qd\">donating now<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Loh in\u00a0The Guardian: On Mount Athos, in northern Greece, a monk rises before dawn to sing the same office that has been sung on that mountain for more than 1,000 years. He learned it from older monks who came before him, who learned it in turn in an unbroken chain stretching back to Athanasios&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311896,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311892\/revisions\/311896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311858,"date":"2026-09-20T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311858"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:12:58","slug":"annie-dillard-1945-2026-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/annie-dillard-1945-2026-pulitzer-prize-winning-writer.html","title":{"rendered":"Annie Dillard (1945 &#8211; 2026) Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Updike, Annie Dillard, and Larry McMurtry at the University of Richmond, 1983\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1vX7E-wGgRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoying the content on 3QD? 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