Inhumanitarians
May 03, 2022
However lofty its claims, the UN is no arbiter of a moral world order.
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Miłosz’s Magic Mountain
May 02, 2022
Czesław Miłosz expressed both pride and shame over his inability to commit.
Fresh Hell
April 29, 2022
The Sum of All Fears
Brain-addled swimmers of the content stream have no doubt heard by now that Apartheid Clyde née Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, has struck a deal to acquire Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Assuming that this is not an elaborate prank designed ...
The Fifth Shot
For people with compromised immune systems, the pandemic is not over.
Bad Seeds
April 28, 2022
There are rotten branches in our family trees.
A Fabric of Surfaces
April 27, 2022
Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.
Popular and Known to No One
With ravenous eyesI devoured what others thought I was nourishing.This is how I overindulged,with glances thatare never returned.A few days ago the little one cried.She lifted her head to the sky,tears fell from her eyes,a sob filled her throat.In silence I watched,ignoring ...
Ask Dr. Mueller
April 26, 2022
A downtown icon and John Waters muse, Cookie Mueller was devoted to beauty and pleasure.
Robert Moses is Dead
April 25, 2022
Making urban planning more equitable requires more than atoning for past sins.
Fresh Hell
April 22, 2022
Strangest Thing
Earlier this week, Netflix revealed that, for the first time in a decade, they had failed to attract enough new subscribers to offset those so disenchanted by the rich programming on offer, such as Life After Death with Tyler Henry and Is It Cake?, that ...
Lost Companions
During the pandemic, pets have sometimes replaced the missing people in our lives.
The Gospel of Organizing
April 21, 2022
Winning union victories at organizations founded and sustained by Gilded Age wealth.