If You Wear a Canada Goose Jacket, I Won’t Talk to You
The resident legal expert for The Brewer’s Table explores a gray area of first amendment rights, while simultaneously complaining about the finer feathers of winter wear.
Reads of The Week: Maraschino, Michelangelo, and Marianne Williamson
In week two of our summer reading series, wannabe political wonk and think-piece enthusiast Talya Phelps offers up nine articles to inform, distract, and entertain.
Old Dudes, New Ideas: Baruch Spinoza
In the first installment of his new series, Table Writer Abram Gregory argues that the theories of one 17th-century philosopher could be adapted into a resilient framework that legitimizes the independent existence of queerness.
Exploring the Flavors of Barcelona
Food enthusiasm knows no borders for a prolific writer/eater spending summer abroad in one of the world’s premier cuisine capitals.
America’s National Parks, For Sale
In the parks that have long been framed as the pride and joy of “The Land of the Free,” one writer discovered that he can buy a $320 hotel room, and a $15 hot dog, from a single mega-conglomerate.
Reads of the Week: Let’s Get Political
In the first installment of a new summer series, Senior Editor Jessica Moss—part-time politics junkie, concerned global citizen and full-time cat person—gives you the scoop on what news articles you should read this week to stay up to date.
Quite Frankly: Summer Advice #3
While the cult of viral cooking videos perpetuates the myth that aesthetic and nutritious sustenance is easy to throw together, planning and prep take a sharp mind and committed patience.
Airpods, Yeezys, and the Unrelenting Appeal of the Superfluous Object
Musings from a late convert to the wonderful world of the wireless earbud.
In Calypso, Sedaris Births an Unexpected Magnum Opus
Emerging from a fog of literary pseudo-intellectualism, one reader finally welcomes Sedaris’ arch yet beguiling prose with open arms.
Quite Frankly: Summer Advice #2
Rejecting the temptations of big cities, which double as capitalistic havens, may be as simple as creating a basic budget sheet.