We are hopeful not because what is lost can be recovered, but because an irrecoverable loss does not determine one’s sense of self and future.
Category Archive: Cold War
Le Carré elevated quit lit into something sublime and deserving of literary awards, unlike my overwrought internet Weltschmertz.
Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.
Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.
What do the CIA and Gandhi have in common? Both were advocates of what historian Daniel Immerwahr calls “community development.”
Both films show how human faith falters in the face of planetary crisis. Only it’s not the Cold War anymore.
May 1945, just six months after my husband Hal was born, World War II in Europe ended. However, […]
We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]