From a series of lists compiled in Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats, which was published in November by Andrews McMeel Publishing. raining cats and dogs Raining old ladies and…
From comments sent to public school boards in the United States since last year. You are forcing them to wear masks for no reason in this world other than control.…
From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…
From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized. Colonialism Complicity in the slave trade Passivity during the Holocaust The Inquisition Systemic sexual abuse Missionaries in China Sins against the…
From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…
From London-rose, which was published last month by Semiotext(e). I’m embarrassed by the bitterness I am feeling. It’s as if I had been sipping poison for the past ten years…
From “Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Dissent. Progressives have struggled to comprehend the foundations of the far right’s continuing…
From “Man Mountain,” a short story, which was published last month in the inaugural issue of Astra Magazine. I cannot say I fully understood where it came from, but I…
My first skis, at age two, were Olin brand, a fluorescent coral pink. They had no edges. Their sidewalls were pure white, like cut cake. They glowed, a special and…