Month: October 2020

The first example of mass production in human history was likely brickmaking under Augustus in Rome. But it wasn’t until 18th century Britain and the Industrial Revolution that it arrived upon the scene for good. Indeed, not until the 20th century was the term “mass production” widely used. Since then, much has been written about it ― favorable and unfavorable…

In Jessica Treadway’s novel Lacy Eye, a young girl, upon receiving a diagnosis of a lazy eye, hears instead the words “lacy eye,” a much prettier sounding condition. The error comes to symbolize the novel’s major theme: our sometime preference not for the truth but for what we’d rather be true. Though easy to state but difficult to adopt, a…