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March 2025
The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second administration have been characterized, among other things, by an obscene display of policing power, one that has largely alarmed liberals because it appears completely lawless. One of Trump’s initial acts was pardoning and commuting people convicted of crimes related to January 6, including some who had injured...
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Is Being fundamentally a state, or an act? Is humanhood something we are, or that we do? For Heidegger, we only exist as relational creatures, embedded in a web of connections, and it is through our attempt to comprehend the nature of those relations that we arrive at a full understanding of ourselves as Beings....
Read MoreFebruary 2025
“The day after,” has been a shorthand since the start of the war for what will happen in Gaza once the war is over. It would more fittingly be called “the days after,” since whoever governs Gaza will also have to grapple with the problem of who will rebuild it and how, and what can...
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Piotr Florczyk in conversation with Ange Mlinko, occasioned by the release of Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets, Mlinko’s collection of literary essays, out now from Oxford University Press. It seems the number of books in print increases every year — a condition which never ceases to surprise me; not long ago the demise of...
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Over the past month and change, every day has brought some new and shocking change to the country where I was born. The mass pardon of domestic terrorists. Corruption charges dropped against the mayor of New York City, in exchange for cooperation with ICE. The explicit targeting of racial and sexual minorities, the resumption of...
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Like always, my heart lurched when I stepped off the jet bridge and into Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. I’ve crossed the walkway to customs so many times over the past two decades and in that time the space has hardly changed at all. This time was no different. What was new was the surge of...
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Minutes after the hostage agreement was signed between Hamas and Israel, the streets of the West Bank, several Arab capitals, and even some European cities echoed with chants celebrating Hamas’ “victory.” A “victory” paid for with the lives of at least 50,000 people, 110,000 wounded, and with the utter destruction of over seventy-five percent of...
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Consciously at least, I meant to present myself in court on the fourth and last day of the first instance in 2022. I must have silenced my alarm while half asleep because I woke to a call from my lawyer. “Restez à la maison,” she said: “Stay home. It’s just the defense’s closing arguments.” I...
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Thirty-five years ago, a Canadian named Ursula Franklin offered a dark prophecy. She predicted that unfettered technological development could strip us of the capacity to honor our fellow citizens’ very humanity. In such a world, she taught, democracy will become increasingly untenable — because liberal humanism is impossible to cultivate in a society dominated by...
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Thousands of minutes and hours, deeds and words, specifications, delusions, mistakes without end, longing, flesh — it takes so much to create a single person — that he be, that he survives, that he feels a hand on his shoulder, that others say to him ‘It is you.’ And it is so easy for him...
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