• “History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future. It is a mistake to believe that white supremacy is something nurtured and reproduced by extremist organizations and ‘bad apples’ in the armed forces and police. White supremacy is ubiquitous in the U.S.” (London Review of Books)

• New research argues that Incan children may have been given ayahuasca before being ritually sacrificed. (Science News)

• “New Delhi can be seen an incarnation of all the complicated and conflicting legacies of Indian history. Its cumulative planning and architectural expressions might, from one perspective, be regarded as a colossal and pervasive monument to centuries of colonial occupation. Alternatively, the capital might be understood as an urbanistic and architectural framework that has been absorbed and metabolized by a newly self-governing people, the meanings of which are ever shifting.” (Places Journal)

•  What did parents do before formula? Often they relied on outside help, coerced or from the community, to feed their children. (The Atlantic)

• “A century ago, when automobiles were controversial new arrivals in American cities, the media’s approach to traffic fatalities was far less deferential to drivers.” (Slate)

• “How does the absence of information also serve as a narrative in one’s history?” (Oxford American)

• Revisiting Rachel Carson’s books about the sea. (The Nation)

• “Taken as a whole, Egypt itself—village and city, pyramid and tomb—is also a kind of gamble, and one that raises a crucial question about intergenerational justice. Who gets to build a holy site? Who is born into what birthright? Whose tomb, whose house, whose place of worship is moved or destroyed? Which images and artifacts are returned to Egypt, and which become the mascots for another people?” (Popula)

• “The Secret History of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko.” (Defector)

• This week in obituaries: Fred Ward, Larry Woiwode, Vangelis, Urvashi Vaid, Randy Weaver, Haleh Afshar, John L. Canley, Katsumoto Saotome, Rosmarie Trapp, Marilyn Fogel, Ray Scott, Teresa Berganza, Shivkumar Sharma, Robert Goolrick, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ben Roy Mottelson, Carrie White, Donald K. Ross, Robert C. McFarlane, Jake Cakebread, William Bennett, Joanna Barnes, John Leo, Jürgen Blin, John Wilkins, Gino Cappelletti, and David Marcuse.