When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their…
An American Education: Notes from UATX
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or…
Housewife Demonology
In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung cancer at thirty-eight: unusual in…
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
In South Dekalb County, Georgia, the South River forest forms a canopy so lush and life-giving that it is referred to as one of the “four lungs of Atlanta.” This…
Novel Evil
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and uncontroversial narrative linchpins, trite and…
Two Months
If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long…
PACBI Now
This image is the current logo for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing…
Inflation Grips American Households: A Closer Look at the Financial Strain
The rising tide of inflation continues to tighten its grip on American households, casting a long shadow over the financial stability of families across the nation. As prices soar, many…
Georgia’s controversial 2021 voting law overhaul survives preliminary legal challenge
A Georgia federal court judge declined this week to temporarily block the state’s controversial election rules, which several voting rights and civil rights organizations claim will disenfranchise Black voters throughout…
Here’s who gets money from Defend Texas Liberty, the PAC whose leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes
“Here’s who gets money from Defend Texas Liberty, the PAC whose leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization…