This is a stitch-up
Rafael Bernabe’s history of the Puerto Rico independence movement, Obstinate Star, can serve as a key tool for those on the US left who want to understand Puerto Rican politics beyond the occasional tokenization of the island by Democratic Party elites.
National Geographic on the secret operation to move the Bayeux Tapestry from the Bayeux Museum in France to the British Museum in London while the former undergoes a two-year renovation.
For the BBC, Deborah Nicholls-Lee considers why the 11th-century masterpiece’s tale of a contested throne feels so familiar today: “‘Chest-thumping machismo’: The Bayeux Tapestry reveals the bloody, bawdy truth about the Middle Ages.”
“It’s an artwork depicting a medieval version of today’s digital manosphere: an ideology and world centred on hypermasculinity and men’s experiences,” Nicholls-Lee writes. “And a world where size matters.”
The way Lindsay Beyerstein sees it, “The world-burners have always been losers with good PR.”
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