Twain’s Gazette of the Absurd

Twain’s Gazette of the Absurd

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From Slaughter to Casinos?
A landscape remembers what commerce prefers to forget.
 • Kimberly Twain
📚 Freedom Schools and the Education That Refused to Disappear
🧭 The Family CurriculumTwain’s Gazette of the Absurd is a reader-supported publication.
 • Kimberly Twain
🪙👑 The Donor and the King
A Berkeley walk through money, monuments, and the modern urge to sit on the throne
 • Kimberly Twain
The Northern Gold Fields: Shasta’s Hard Country
By the early 1850s, while San Francisco was busy turning gold into chandeliers and oysters, the rush pressed north into the river cuts and oak-scraped…
 • Kimberly Twain
Civics for the Bewildered: Chapter One
What Civics Is (And Why I Went Looking for It Instead of a Helmet)
 • Kimberly Twain
The Republic We Recited, the Democracy We Imagined
WHERE THE HELL AM I?
 • Kimberly Twain
📘 CIVICS FOR THE BEWILDERED
A Vintage Guide to a Republic with Cracks in Its Foundation From The Twainian Civics Triptych: Power, Conscience, and the Lost Arts of Citizenship by…
 • Kimberly Twain
The Closing of Legacy
When institutions abandon art and women’s intellectual life, they do not become efficient — they become naïve, and inquiry itself begins to narrow.
 • Kimberly Twain

January 2026

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