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Does Time Pass or, Do We Pass the Time?

Lisa Hsiao Chen explores what it is that keeps us going

April 13, 2022 • by Shweta Nandakumar and Lisa Hsiao Chen

Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living examines the interconnections between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, this is a vivid, and tender examination of the ...

Art & Design

Souvenir

Adapted excerpt from Activities of Daily Living

April 13, 2022 • by Lisa Hsiao Chen

For her project about the Artist—at least that’s what she was calling it for now, a project—Alice read all that she could find about his yearlong performance works before he renounced making art altogether. There was the year he locked himself in a cage. The year he punched a time clock ...

Psyche

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer on young and emerging adulthood

April 12, 2022 • by Rainesford Stauffer

Young adulthood doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Systemic problems do impact how, or whether, young people meet the so-called milestones of young adulthood....

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Interviews

Dismantling Truths About Emerging Adulthood

A conversation with Rainesford Stauffer: Breaking down the structural challenges behind living your #BestLife

April 12, 2022 • by Rainesford Stauffer and Shivani Somaiya

We need a really radical re-imagining of, not just how we think about young adulthood, but how we move through our lives and where we find value. I would want people to know that this myth of young adulthood is not your individual burden. Doing the best you can within ...

Dismantling Truths About Emerging Adulthood

Europe & Central Asia

On Collective Responsibility and “Good” Russians

Preaching to Ukrainians that there are “good Russians out there who are also victims of Putin” is the same as saying “all lives matter”

April 11, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

Despite what I regard as obvious parallels with Nazi Germany, I still find it very hard to break the wall with my international colleagues who urge us Ukrainians to remain open to dialogue and even sympathy with ordinary Russians—the good Russians—who they say are “also victims of Putin’s regime.” ...

On Collective Responsibility and “Good” Russians

Politics

The Riot on New Zealand’s Front Lawn

Reckoning with an antivax occupation, homegrown racism, and global white nationalism

April 11, 2022 • by Lydia Nobbs

Ardern’s words might have comforted those New Zealanders taken aback by the protest, but it fails to seriously engage with the complexity of the occupation, which intermingled transnational far-right tactics with homegrown white supremacy, wellness misinformation, and indigenous disenfranchisement. The protest, and Ardern’s response, has wide implications for parsing both ...

Corporations

Why Taking on Turbotax Matters

Intuit is a scourge

April 8, 2022 • by Pat Garofalo

Tax Day 2022 is almost here, so it seems like a good time to talk about one of my least favorite corporations: Intuit, the makers of Turbotax, the now ubiquitous electronic tax payment software. A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission — which enforces federal antitrust and consumer protection ...

Europe & Central Asia

Nobody Knows What Russians Want, Not Even Russians Themselves

Can a kleptocracy have national interests?

April 6, 2022 • by Nikolay Koposov

Russia has no national interests, not even in Ukraine. Russians are denied subjectivity, the means of making rational and responsible decisions. Instead, they have state-sanctioned propaganda, rigged elections, pretend patriotism and a profoundly inhuman leadership....

Nobody Knows What Russians Want, Not Even Russians Themselves

Europe & Central Asia

Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom

Russia’s imperial dreams and the tragedy of Central Europe

April 6, 2022 • by Karolina Koziura

Some in the West are amazed that Russia is losing this war so far. Others are surprised by the courageous ways in which Ukrainians are resisting attacks and defending themselves with determination. Yet the opposite has happened. Ukraine has never been further away from Russia and closer to Western Europe ...

The Right

The Return of the Repressed

Poland has effectively abandoned antifascism

April 5, 2022 • by Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Was it only my generation—people born shortly after World War II—that believed fascism had been defeated? We were convinced that lessons had been learned and linear progress was ahead of us; it was unimaginable that anyone would defend such an ideology any longer. All European regimes (but for Franco’s) were ...

Politics

How China Sees Russia’s War in Ukraine

It’s all about America

April 4, 2022 • by Mark Frazier

Many ordinary Chinese citizens, as well as foreign policy elites, have concluded that America is China’s number one national security threat. From their standpoint, any country that confronts the United States deserves at least tacit support....

Europe & Central Asia

How Did it Happen That People in A Country With The Third-Largest River in Europe Have No Drinking Water?

A Socratic dialogue on war in Ukraine

April 1, 2022 • by Ihor Andriichuk

How did we end up here? How did we end up in a world where people in the country contributing ten percent to the world’s grain export are starving to death? How did it happen that people in a country with the third-largest river in Europe have no drinking water? ...

Essays

Does Time Pass or, Do We Pass the Time?

Lisa Hsiao Chen explores what it is that keeps us going

Souvenir

Adapted excerpt from Activities of Daily Living

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer on young and emerging adulthood

Dismantling Truths About Emerging Adulthood

A conversation with Rainesford Stauffer: Breaking down the structural challenges behind living your #BestLife

On Collective Responsibility and “Good” Russians

Preaching to Ukrainians that there are “good Russians out there who are also victims of Putin” is the same as saying “all lives matter”

The Riot on New Zealand’s Front Lawn

Reckoning with an antivax occupation, homegrown racism, and global white nationalism

Why Taking on Turbotax Matters

Intuit is a scourge

Nobody Knows What Russians Want, Not Even Russians Themselves

Can a kleptocracy have national interests?

Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom

Russia’s imperial dreams and the tragedy of Central Europe

The Return of the Repressed

Poland has effectively abandoned antifascism

How China Sees Russia’s War in Ukraine

It’s all about America

How Did it Happen That People in A Country With The Third-Largest River in Europe Have No Drinking Water?

A Socratic dialogue on war in Ukraine

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