Essays

Europe & Central Asia

Helping Ukraine We Help Ourselves

An appeal of Nobel Prize winners, former presidents and prime ministers, scientists and journalists to adopt a plan to help Ukraine fighting against Russia’s aggression

March 22, 2022 • by
For three weeks, Ukraine has been courageously repelling the military aggression of a treacherous and more powerful enemy. Ukraine’s strength has two sources. The first is the bravery of her soldiers and volunteers, who are defending their families, their homes, their native land. The second is the solidarity and assistance ...
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Helping Ukraine We Help Ourselves
Europe & Central Asia

Putin’s New Iron Curtain

Freedom and democracy are both impossible if we do not take responsibility for the other

March 22, 2022 • by
Let us recognize that freedom and democracy are both impossible if we do not take responsibility for the other. This is the call of ethics. It is required to imagine another future, to free the world from arrogant barbarism, to break out of the world in which we now find ...
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Putin’s New Iron Curtain
Europe & Central Asia

Russia’s Creative Class Heads for the Exits

“I left, because life in Russia is turning into survival”

March 16, 2022 • by
Ukrainians are not the only ones fleeing their homeland because of the war. Thousands of Russians are also trying to flee – though it becomes harder every day for them to do so because of internal crackdowns and foreign flight restrictions. Since invading Ukraine, Russia has been almost entirely isolated from ...
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Russia’s Creative Class Heads for the Exits
Europe & Central Asia

The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina discuss the conflict and its consequences

March 16, 2022 • by , , and
This conversation between Peter J. Hoffman, Nina Krushcheva, Jessica Pisano, and Everita Silina was organized by The New School’s Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, with an eye towards bringing light to different angles and perspectives on this conflict. It occurred on March 1, 2022, and has been ...
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The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Interviews

Phillis Wheatley’s Lost Years

She didn’t go far from Boston, but a keen-eyed historian glimpsed her in the archive—and that find opens up a door to both the poet’s marriage and the final years of slavery in Massachusetts

March 16, 2022 • by and
In September 2021, University of Connecticut historian Cornelia Dayton broke the news that three “lost” years of African American poet Phillis Wheatley had been accounted for: the first three years of her marriage to John Peters, a free Black New Englander who she married in 1780. In an article published ...
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Phillis Wheatley’s Lost Years
Politics

Race and Redistricting

Gerrymandering is old, but the prohibition of racial gerrymandering is a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’s success

March 15, 2022 • by
Eventually, all legislatures conformed to the Supreme Court’s mandate that the only basis for representation was population. States where one party dominated the legislature gerrymandered to consolidate its position. In states with large minority populations which largely voted for one major party and whites the other, party gerrymandering became racial ...
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Race and Redistricting
Sex & Gender

Remembering OutWrite

Something extraordinary happens when queer writers gather together

March 15, 2022 • by
How did OutWrite, the annual conference of queer writers come to be? Let’s time travel for a moment to back to the late 1980s and early 1990s and try to see the world through the eyes of queer people. AIDS is raging. In 1989, 14,646 HIV-infected people died; in 1990, 27,311. ...
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Remembering OutWrite

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