Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!

To see how they are faring relative to their original cohortmates, we would compare their performance against that of children at point C- this is a same-age comparison. The corresponding comparison 2 years post retention involves[…]

Ten years ago, David Simon’s iconic TV series The Wire portrayed contemporary Baltimore as wracked by illegal drug use, violent crime and failing institutions. But underneath the symptoms were the structures of political economy. As the show’s tagline had it, “everything is connected”.

They are an important factor indicating a corpus of beliefs common to the important central colonies (Carthage, Sousse, Motya, Sulcis, Nora, Tharros), where tophets and accompanying grave stelae have been found.