More Goodbye, Columbus, In Baltimore This Time

Protesters pulled down the status and dragged it to Inner Harbor, where they dumped it. “The Columbus statue was dragged down as people marched across the city Saturday demanding reallocation of funds from the police department to social services, a reassessment of the public education system, reparations for Black people, housing for the homeless, and the removal of all statues ‘honoring white supremacists, owners of enslaved people, perpetrators of genocide, and colonizers.'” – Baltimore Sun

A Classic Science Fiction Trilogy With Ideas So Wild That Only Our Time Could Match Them

As Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series gets shot around the virus in five different countries (“Our main stages are in Europe, in countries that are super safe at the moment,” the executive producer says), it’s not bizarre that a series about an empire that almost falls thanks to the smarmy, hypnotic charisma of one intensely creepy man feels relevant. Genre, says the producer, is “an expression of revolutionary thought.” – Wired