2018 was a big year for Tropics of Meta. We welcomed new contributors (shout out to Eric Michael […]
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Life often gives us unlikely symmetries. We see Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina falling into a diligently designed […]
It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means. All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat.
As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it was the worst […]
The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking head: The situation […]
Our first week in a post-Anthony Kennedy America was about as bad as one would expect. But… BUT… […]
Lo these many years ago, a scruffy band of boho assholes with incomprehensible lyrics and a Burroughs […]
As Hurricane Florence wades across the Carolinas with stoner-like efficiency, we were left with an indelible image that […]