Where Is New York?

Like so many newcomers, I was looking for my city. Then I reached for E. B. White’s 1948 classic, Here Is New York

Naman Vakharia ponders on his personal yet collective experience of moving to the dirty, dreamy, and historical city: New York....

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Where Is New York?

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

The concept of preempting an enemy’s nuclear weapons that was a central point of Soviet military thought has been reiterated by President Vladimir Putin....

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Putin’s Atom

“Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?”

An excerpt from American Relics and the Politics of Memory

Relics’ ability to bridge space could match their facility in transcending time—they are conventionally transportable, sometimes through their fragmentation and multiplication, and their mobility enhances their usefulness to their possessors, who are thus able to deploy their power where they might have the greatest effect....

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“Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?”

The Violence of American Border Policies Continues

Both political parties say they care about families—so why would the Biden administration return to a family separation regime?

And yet, in the absence of new legislation that makes it easier to cross the border legally for work, the Biden administration has defaulted to a hard line on immigration that continues to separate families and promote border security. ...

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The Violence of American Border Policies Continues

Am I a Heteropessimist?

Four years since we learned the word, what does heteropessimism look like today?

Evidently, I am far from alone in the befuddlement I feel about my heterosexual relationship, nor am I the only one noticing the fact that, even though so many of us feel similarly, heteropessimism (and its attendant inaction) persists. ...

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Am I a Heteropessimist?

Nihilism for the Whole Family!

How Evelyn misinterpreted Waymond’s rebellion in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Evelyn’s response to the multiverse reflects an existentialist resolution that builds upon a particular version of nihilism: if the universe is inherently meaningless, then we are at liberty to create our own meanings within it....

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Nihilism for the Whole Family!