Ezra Klein's Cantos

Spring.... Too long.... Yglesias....

Here stripped Here made to stand; to have his heart set on a pike Men need to feel A cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter

Evil and further evil, and a curse cursed on our children -- 9 reasons Christopher Columbus Was a murderer, tyrant, and scoundrel.

See, they return now With fear as half-awakened; Taylor Swift and Apple are getting back together and Spotify should be terrified.

The thought of Paul Ryan's 2015 budget plan Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity Pull down thy vanity, I say, pull down!

Fulgent red libations of phiale onto omphalos are pleasing to young Dionysius This is why Harvard owns 10,000 acres of California vineyards.

Dark blood Souls out of Erebus Cadaverous dead of brides the young the old This is what Manhattan would look like if its commuters drove

Blow! O ye ashes, where the winds shall please But cry Love also is the Yearly Slain This map shows every gun death in America since Newtown

A pallor upon him He cried out to men for more beasts: This political philosopher makes the case For giving animals citizenship!

In the wake of #Ferguson, many are asking "What is Justice?" Justice directio voluntatis Or contemplation as Richardus defined it.

Even I, who knoweth the roads Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body, Even I know that the way we board airplanes makes no sense.

Where wine flag catches the sunset Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light And inside sits your right-wing uncle imitating Squanto.

Kansas was supposed to be the GOP's tax-cut paradise. I too have tried to write Paradise Let the gods forgive what I have made.