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World War II

Grand Illusion

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I’ve given the Second World War a uniformly bad press, rejecting all attempts to depict it as a sensible proceeding or to mitigate its cruelty and swinishness. I have rubbed…

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“Put on the Diamonds”

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Notes on humiliation

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Prayer for a Just War

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Prayer for a Just War

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Finding meaning in the climate fight

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Rumination

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From “Inside Stories,” an essay published in the Winter 2021 issue of Five Points. I used to visit an elderly woman who lived in a single room in an apartment…

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Shelter in Place

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The democratic designs of J.B.S. Haldane

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Two Germanys

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The East, the West, and the meaning of home

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Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles

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From Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of essays that will be published next month by Knopf. The essay originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in…

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Abstract Expression

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The former Yugoslavia’s enigmatic memorial architecture

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Life During Wartime

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Learning to Go to Sea on Shore, by George Wright. Originally published in the November 1918 issue of Harper’s Magazine It is a small hotel compared with the fashionable resorts…

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Things to Come

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On March 30, during one of the daily briefings on the COVID-19 outbreak that had so captured the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo uttered a sentence…

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