'Aging gracefully'. I was a ballet dancer for many years and was often called graceful. The word was always used to imply that the way I moved and stood seemed to lack effort, when in fact it took thousands of hours of effort. Male dancers, curiously, were not called graceful to my memory, but things like 'skilled'. Which implies effort, and acknowledges the extraordinary amount of time (and physical pain) one must invest to move like that.

After a month in the US, I’m finally back home in Buenos Aires. All the travel in recent days means I haven’t had time to write as much as I would’ve liked. So this week I’m reaching into the archive. One of the last things I did before leaving NY was to pick up a hard drive containing a few terabytes of outtakes, roughs, refs, demos, entire shows in one wav file, backups of full recording sessions, and general detritus from the cutting room floor.

Everyone deserves a second chance. The former Harvard professor of psychology Marc D Hauser has had a controversial academic career, having been investigated in a high profile case in 2010 by Harvard for supposedly falsifying research data. But Hauser, who quit Harvard in 2011, remains prolific and has a new book out this week, Vulnerable Minds, focused - perhaps not uncoincidentally, given Hauser’s own history - on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and thus lead happy lives.

Mary TownsendMary Townsend is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. John's University, Queens, NY. She is the author of The Woman Question in Plato's Republic, 2017, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, and Gawker. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjaS0xLOYq6Gjqby1sQ%3D%3D

In a decision that has ignited heated debate across Massachusetts, the State House recently rejected an amendment to a bill that would have prioritized housing assistance for homeless veterans over migrants. The defeat of the amendment, known as Amendment 698, has prompted outcry from veterans and their supporters, who argue that veterans should receive special consideration in housing policies due to their service and sacrifices. Amendment 698 sought to give U.