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“Things Happen”
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Goldbugs
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Fascism’s Body Politics
November 25, 2025 and
A conversation with Dagmar Herzog on disability under fascism in her new book, The New Fascist Body
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Eight Months to Learn Spanish
November 25, 2025 and
The 2026 World Cup will be a revelation, proving soccer’s arrival in the United States and inviting more Americans to see themselves as part of a Spanish-speaking Americas
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Politics
“Things Happen”
November 19, 2025
A daguerreotype of William Lloyd Garrison in formal dress.
History
From William Lloyd Garrison to Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
November 18, 2025
Friedrich A Hayek Gold Coin. Head side reads "Denationalization of Money" with Hayek portrait. Reverse reads "1/2 ounce pure gold."
Economy
Goldbugs
November 17, 2025
Aerial view of Israeli destruction in Beach refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Looking south with the coast on the right. The Port of Gaza is visible in the distance, projecting into the Mediterranean Sea.
Israel/Palestine
Palestinians in Their Own Words, Their Own Genres
November 14, 2025
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The Ostriches: Part III
November 12, 2025
The Ostriches: Part II
October 29, 2025
The Trump Administration’s War on Venezuelan Migrants
October 24, 2025
The Ostriches: Part I
October 15, 2025
The Democrats and Immigration
July 30, 2025
A Quiet Border and the End of Asylum?
July 21, 2025
What’s Happening in Los Angeles?
June 24, 2025
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The Rare Beauty of Folkstyle Wrestling
March 13, 2025
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Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot
October 8, 2024
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Bad Breaking
October 4, 2024
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“Village NBA” in China
September 9, 2024
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Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex
May 1, 2023
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A Republic, If We Can Afford It
November 6, 2025
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Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It to Us Good and Hard?
October 28, 2025
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The New Political Theology
September 24, 2025
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Trump vs. the Fed
August 27, 2025
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Trump, Thucydides, and the Corruption of Language
June 25, 2025
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Naguib Mahfouz’s Last Dreams of Cairo
November 11, 2025
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Shakespeare Among the French Romantics
October 30, 2025
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The Gospel According to Queer Russians
October 22, 2025
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A Creation Born Out of the Longing of Golus
September 1, 2025
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Bruno Schulz’s Poetics of Golus
September 1, 2025 and
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Should Universities Just Leave? 
October 23, 2025
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Panama Against Trump
October 13, 2025
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Naked Oligarchy
June 19, 2025
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“The Amazon Is Not a Warehouse”
May 8, 2025 , and
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Wars of De-Civilization
February 5, 2024
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Germany Holds Up a Mirror for America
October 6, 2025
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The Fate of the Artist Under Totalitarianism
June 17, 2025 and
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In I’m Still Here, a Mother Refuses to Let a Dictatorship Rewrite Reality
April 9, 2025
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Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence
February 20, 2025
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Curzio Malaparte’s War
January 30, 2025
Germany
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Germany
War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest
March 25, 2024
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Germany, Genocide, and Gaza
March 6, 2024
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Goodbye Merkel, Hello … Who?
September 29, 2021
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The Right Terror Threatens Us All
November 6, 2019 and

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