One of the things that drew me to Germantown was the amount of space to plant things in the ground. I’ve had my share of container gardens in concrete backyards that left me wanting to grow more plants. What I really wanted was enough space to grow my own food. In a time when supply
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Reckoning with our past and future requires us to open our eyes by Heather Shayne Blakeslee The images are terrifying: white civilian men armed with semi-automatic rifles, staking out ground around Justice Park in Charlottesville in August. It’s terrifying, but not surprising in its entitlement; it’s also not surprising that one woman died and many
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Reflecting on the progress we have made by Alex Mulcahy We spend so much time plotting and planning what’s next, but on the cusp of our 100th issue, I finally took the time to look back at Grid. Flipping through magazines, preserved in plastic sheaths like prized baseball cards from my youth, was a joy.
MoreThe Talk by Heather Shayne Blakeslee I don’t have children myself, nor do I plan to. But kids abound in my life, including the three amazing children that my sister and her husband have ushered into the world. I think about them a lot, and as they get older I wonder when they will start
MoreIllustration by Natalie T. McGarvey Back to the Land by Jerry Silberman Question: Is vegetarianism the right thing to do? The Right Question: Is vegetarianism breaking the chain of life? Voluntary vegetarianism is a relatively recent phenomenon in human society. One of its principal rationales is moral, and insists that killing animals for food is
MoreIllustration by Chris Bernhardt Consciousness Raising by Devamrita Swami Whether it is a new vegetarian restaurant around the corner, a doctor who recommended a vegetarian diet or environmentalists contemplating the growing impact of the livestock industry on the planet, you may have caught yourself wondering—what is vegetarianism all about? What is the full impact of
MoreIllustration by James Heimer To Eat or Not to Eat Meat? interview by Heather Shayne Blakeslee Philosopher Andrew F. Smith wasn’t prepared for PETA and an army of committed fellow vegetarians to go on the attack when he released his last book, “A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism.” But they did—and he’s still
MoreIllustration by Carter Mulcahy Celebrating V-Day by Kate Jacoby One evening in 1999, I ascended the monster of an escalator out of the Dupont Circle Metro in Washington, D.C., fresh from my idealistic internship at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, African Subdivision. I was definitively out of breath because my angsty, prove-something-to-the-world, late-teen self
MoreIllustration by Ruo Fei Zhang Beauty in Every Moment essay by Mike Sparks Most of my friends refer to me as an adventurist, but I don’t think of myself that way—I just love to be outdoors. My three most common modes of transportation are biking, running and motorcycling, and I’m happy whether the sun is
MoreIllustration by Abayomi Louard-Moore The Keys to the Future by Jerry Silberman Editor’s note: This is Part Four of a series that concludes this month. In the last three columns we have outlined the dynamics of energy use in our society. We know that the release of huge quantities of solar energy stored in carbon
MoreIllustration by Kailey Whitman Our Moment is Now by Larry Krasner When people think about a “district attorney” they often think of someone who prosecutes crimes against people and property, and hopefully of someone who protects the rights of crime survivors and the accused alike. I also believe, as a candidate for district attorney, that
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