What purpose does such an attitude serve? By Nickolas Kouravanas First of all, it is important to keep in mind that the majority of people have more or less prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination against other racial groups. As several people claim: «No one is born wanting to be racist, sexist, or homophobic». Misinformation related to […]
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, accompanied by an MPD sergeant, taking a knee as the remains of George Floyd are driven to a memorial service in his honor, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 4, 2020. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images. Krithika Varagur Minneapolis, Minnesota—To begin, two tales of Twin Cities police. First, Donn Landrum. The fifty-three-year-old
President Putin presenting his identification document to validate his vote in Russia’s constitutional amendment referendum that would permit him to remain president until 2036, Moscow, July 1, 2020 On July 1, after “recovering,” by decree, from the coronavirus pandemic, Russia held a vote on a package of constitutional amendments. Introduced by Vladimir Putin back in […]
Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images. President Donald Trump brandishing a bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2020 Sarah Churchwell As militarized police in riot gear and armored vehicles barreled into peaceful protesters in cities across America, and its president emerged from a bunker to have citizens tear-gassed on his […]
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images. A message chalked on the road during a demonstration protesting the police shooting death of Philando Castile after a traffic stop, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 7, 2016 A few years back, I was on my way to an appearance at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, in Vermont. My coauthor, Peter […]
The Watergate scandal left many Americans wondering if they could ever trust their government again. In October 1978, hoping to restore public confidence in federal institutions, Congress created new mechanisms for oversight and new agencies to administer them, including the Office of Government Ethics, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Office of Personnel
by Susan Sontag READING and listening to music: the triumphs of being not myself. That nearly everything I admired was produced by people who were dead (or very old) or from elsewhere, ideally Europe, seemed inevitable to me. I accumulated gods. What Stravinsky was for music Thomas Mann became for literature. At my Aladdin’s cave, […]
Lauren A. Little/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images / ManorCare workers gathering as people parade past the retirement facility where they work to thank them, West Reading, Pennsylvania, May 5, 2020 I came to realize in a series of waves the enormous impact this pandemic would have on the domestic workforce. The first was quite early […]
Anton Chekhov in Yalta, 1900; Charles Dickens at Antoine Francois Jean Claudet’s London studio, circa 1852 Why do we categorize novels? Fantasy, Chick Lit, Crime, Romance, Literary, Gothic, Feminist… Is it the better to find what we want, on the carefully labelled shelves of our bookshops? So that the reading experience won’t, after all, be […]
The disease that has put the entire world on pause is easily communicable, capable of stowing silently away in certain hosts and killing others, and, to the human eye, entirely invisible. In media parlance it’s become our “invisible enemy”: a nightmarish, oneiric force that can’t be seen, heard, or touched. But with the use of […]
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