Politics and the lies we tell about grief
When we do not take grief seriously—our own and another’s—but merely cover its wounds with a garish fairy tale of winking soldiers cheering from…
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On “tyrannese”: A fake interview with Wendell Berry
Well, it’s been a disorienting couple of weeks under the new regime, and while sales of George Orwell’s 1984 pushed the dystopian novel into…
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Donald Trump, caregiver
Editor’s Note: The following essay is in response to a prompt to share personal stories about the potential impact of the election of Donald…
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