The Smithian

...when Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines last month...The storm hit at rice-planting time, tearing farmers’ paddies to shreds and stealing their stocks of seeds.

...a few of advertising's greatest hits on people of color.

...congee neither lengthens nor curtails your life. And it’s just right there between comforting and bland: eating it makes you feel like you’re on the one hand nourishing your needs and on the other hand doing penance for your sins.