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Category Archive: Aneurysms

Sun in an Empty Zoom

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What a Zoom church service tells us about how we got from April to now

Alex Sayf Cummings December 23, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus

So Bright and Clear and Pale in the Afternoon

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An eviction, a SCOTUS vacancy, and a death in the family. How do we keep our feet on the ground to do what has to be done?

Alex Sayf Cummings September 27, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, politics

A Year of Snow Days

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After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus, Education, the South

In the Waiting Room of the Apocalypse

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How many angels can commit suicide on the head of a pin? Noam Chomsky and Margaret Atwood have some opinions on that.

Casey Baskin July 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus

Let’s Talk About Movies, Let’s Get a Bite to Eat

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In a time of great pain and great courage, we miss those who we lost too soon, and everyone else too.

Alex Sayf Cummings June 17, 2020 Aneurysms, coronavirus

We Are Nowhere and It’s for the Foreseeable Future

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Why do we talk about “reopening” the economy, as if it were a bodega or a Bennigan’s? Americans trip over political metaphors yet again.

Casey Baskin May 4, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, capitalism, coronavirus, more conservatism, race

Up-Is-Down Wins the Losers’ Primary in a Tragic Victory

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The Democratic Party’s Situationist wing seizes power in a Zen koan coup d’etat.

Casey Baskin February 14, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, literature, publishing, race, whiteness

Tony Judt on the World We Have Lost and Are Losing

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In his dying years, Tony Judt cautioned us that remembering the 20th century just as a catalog of horrors flattens what actually happened.

Alex Sayf Cummings January 12, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, historians, historiography

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