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    Profound essay by on the fascist dwelling in each one of us.

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    This is the heart of it.

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    Aug 14

    I wrote about Riefenstahl, Malick, Knausgaard, and the possibility of an antifascist aesthetic for

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  4. Aug 13

    “As the Chinese state works to wipe out Uighur culture and identity, the writers, artists, and activists of the Uighur diaspora are demonstrating that their community will not simply be erased.” –

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    this is not just a must-read — it’s also a must-heed… as writes, we’ve got about ten years to do so before its too late

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  6. Aug 13

    Yes, we did ask to be born. Not all of us, of course, only the first few. “Buy In,” a poem by Rae Armantrout

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    Aug 12

    My piece on Trump & the GOP. "Four years after Trump won the Republican nomination, the GOP has become a personalist ruler’s dream: a party solely dedicated to defending and promoting the leader, no matter what he says and does."

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    The Robert B. Silvers Foundation congratulates the recipients of the 2020 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:

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    Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the path of Trump’s enablers: “Corruption is a process, as well as a set of practices. It involves gradual changes in ethical and behavioral norms that make actions that were once considered illegal or immoral seem acceptable.”

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    Aug 11

    “Today, as a virus from another species upends human society, the usefulness of communicating with animals on their own terms is suddenly more imaginable.” Exploring the possibilities and imperatives of interspecies communication:

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    J. Hoberman on what to stream this summer from , and : Bert Stern’s Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Olympic films from 1912 to 2012, and Eric Rohmer’s most louche film

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  12. Aug 11

    “If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But if a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”

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    The current levels of global warming mean everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is effectively moving southward at about 12.5 miles a year, a giant conveyor belt leading to hotter and hotter temperatures

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    “It was the last night of the year 1360, and I could not sleep.” A story by Ariel Dorfman

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    Aug 3

    What if we spent less time trying to teach animals our languages, and more time trying to learn theirs? My review of recent books by Eva Meijer, David Rothenberg, and Alexander Pschera :

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    Aug 9

    This is one of the greatest essays I’ve ever read. Could have been written yesterday. Includes this line: “But when Cassius Clay became Muhammed Ali... a very different impact was made on the people and a very different kind of instruction had begun.”

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    Aug 8

    On the occasion of Jeremy M. Davies‘ and Anna Fitzgerald‘s translation of Pierre Klossowski‘s novel THE SUSPENDED VOCATION (Small Press, 2020) I wrote about his sibling rivalry with the painter Balthus for .

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    Aug 7

    from the pen of the great a must read

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    Aug 6

    Mid-20th-century Brooklyn was full of striving, struggling immigrants. One thing set the Neugeboren family apart: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

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    Aug 6

    In part because of effective deterrence, fear, and a growing taboo against their use, and in part because of dumb luck, 75 years have passed without nuclear weapons’ use again in conflict. But what if deterrence fails? Jessica Tuchman Mathews in :

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