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Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

On the Complex Colonial Histories of Chinese and Indian Tea

By Amitav Ghosh | February 14, 2024

Journalism as a Front of War: <br>On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo

Journalism as a Front of War:
On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo

Introducing a New Column by Steven W. Thrasher

By Steven W. Thrasher | February 12, 2024

Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s <em>Minor Detail</em>

Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 12, 2024

“A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

“A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

Nicki Kattoura on the Impossibility of Writing About the Destruction of Gaza

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2024

No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

Allen C. Guelzo on the 16th President’s Civic and Political Philosophy

By Allen C. Guelzo | February 8, 2024

Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

Jonathan Blitzer on the Origins and Repercussions of the Current Humanitarian Crisis at the Border

By Jonathan Blitzer | February 5, 2024

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No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

Sahar Delijani on the Legacies of the Arab Spring

By Sahar Delijani | January 23, 2024

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

Benjamin Herold on White Flight, Demographic Shifts, and Coming to Terms With the Racist Policies That Created a Crisis

By Benjamin Herold | January 23, 2024

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

“It’s hard to imagine a group of businessmen aggressively lobbying against the physics curriculum at MIT.”

By Nick Romeo | January 19, 2024

Why We Should All Read <br>Hannah Arendt Now

Why We Should All Read
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Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

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