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Category Archive: Best of

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

Rapinoe the Great, Russian Doll, Anatolian Psych-Rock, and Socialism: ToM’s Best of 2019

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We all know the year sucked, but there was some amazing stuff to read, hear, and watch. Our picks.

Guest December 30, 2019 Best of, Best of the Year

When duty texts, remember that you have read-receipt on

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A jittery world watches fascism on the march from Bolivia to India, and Twitter importantly doubles down on Indian food.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 30, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of

The Future Is a Land of Contrasts

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Butt implants, labor victories, and celibate mice make for a weird week.

Casey Baskin November 7, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, gender, Japan, labor, South America, the body, transgender

We, Too, Have Been Bidening

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One of the many things we’ve lost in the years of the Catastrophe is the ability to enjoy Joe Biden.

Casey Baskin September 14, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, elections, politics

We Have Met the Enemy, and It Might Be Us… Maybe. Probably Not.

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For our liberal friends, Russia is the mythology that reassures: the catastrophe that has befallen us was not our fault.

Casey Baskin July 29, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, Donald Trump, politics, Trump

In Search of the Marianne Mindset

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Politics, like life in general, swings this way and that, but it’s never a simple pendulum.

Alex Sayf Cummings June 30, 2019 American Studies, Aneurysms, Best of, conservatism, Democratic Party, Marianne Williamson, more conservatism, politics, radical politics

Lost Children and Found Idiots

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Trump, the Skyline Chili of American presidents. No wonder he won Ohio.

Casey Baskin June 8, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of, immigration, LGBTQ history, Mexico

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