• Meet William Morris, “the socialist aesthete perhaps most radically committed to both democracy in art and the supreme freedom of the individual artist.” (The Point)

• Color analysis in nineteenth-century fashion. (JSTOR Daily)

• Bruce Goff, “modernism’s forgotten genius.” (New York Times)

• The history of our “clean energy” moment and the invisible labor at the heart of it. (Zócalo Public Square)

• “How multi-level marketing became the perfect American scam.” (Current Affairs)

• “Over the coming centuries, the threshold between sleep and wakefulness continued to rouse fear and fascination. … And as novelists sought to capture this flame-flickering world, daydreaming began to be framed by educationalists, psychiatrists, and industrial psychologists as a form of mental absenteeism, a barrier to learning, mental health, and productivity.” (MIT Press Reader)

• This week in obituaries: Catherine O’Hara, Dan McQuade, Ted Berger, Lee Hamilton, David Yarnell, James Sallis, Laura Maioglio, Nancy Seltzer, Desmond Wilson, Myra MacPherson, Billy Bass Nelson, Robert W. Pratt, Michael Parenti, Sonny Jurgensen, Woodie King, Jr., and T. Kumar.