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Author: Ryan Reft

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Goodbye and Good Luck!!

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on October 17, 2016October 17, 2016

Over the past six years or so, I’ve had a great time co-editing and writing…

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  • 1940s

Charles and Ray Eames: How Wartime L.A. Shaped the Mid-Century Modern Aesthetic

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on October 11, 2016October 11, 2016

During the mid-1990s, while working evenings and weekends on her PhD dissertation on 18th-century Philadelphia,…

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  • 1960s

Reagan’s 1966 Gubernatorial Campaign Turns 50: California, Conservatism, and Donald Trump

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on October 3, 2016October 6, 2016

On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater…

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  • 1960s

Making Miranda: What the Famous Warning Tells Us about Police Reform Fifty Years Later

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on September 26, 2016October 6, 2016

Near the end of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, New Zealand social worker Paula, hot on…

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  • New York

Shouting in Silence: 9/11 and the Importance of Saying Nothing Revisited

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on September 11, 2016September 11, 2016

As August comes to a close, the dog days of summer end, leaving before everyone…

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  • labor

Laboring for You: The Best of ToM’s Labor

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on September 5, 2016September 5, 2016

“Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend, everybody wants a little romance,” yacht rock specialists Loverboy sang…

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  • academia

The U of C Way: Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings, and Publicity at the University of Chicago

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on August 29, 2016August 30, 2016

In a possibly, and very likely, apocryphal story that circulated among my social circle at…

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  • Asia

East Asian ToM: Five Days of Seoul

  • by Ryan Reft
  • Posted on August 11, 2016August 11, 2016

After the Korean War, Seoul, South Korea probably wouldn’t have been listed as a ideal…

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