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Category Archive: Cold War

Loss, Hope, and Gift-Giving: Teaching Iep Jāltok During the Pandemic

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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.

Yi-Ting Chang November 3, 2020 Asian and Pacific Islander History, Cold War, poetry, teaching, The Pacific

John Le Carré, Patron Saint Of Disillusioned Academics

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Le Carré elevated quit lit into something sublime and deserving of literary awards, unlike my overwrought internet Weltschmertz.

Jason Tebbe October 28, 2020 academia, Academic job market, Cold War, dog days classics, fiction, foreign policy, literature

Cuban Spies and Cold War Syndromes: A Review of ‘Wasp Network’

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Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.

Eric Morales-Franceschini October 9, 2020 1990s, Cold War, film, foreign policy, radical politics, Uncategorized

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

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Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.

Murray Browne August 10, 2020 Cold War, dog days classics, fiction, World War II

The Allure of Small Things: Daniel Immerwahr on America’s Love Affair with Community Development

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What do the CIA and Gandhi have in common? Both were advocates of what historian Daniel Immerwahr calls “community development.”

Eric Michael Rhodes December 10, 2018 Asia, book reviews, Cold War, foreign policy, globalization, planning, Policy history, South Asia

The World Is Ending, and I’m Terrible at My Job: “Winter Light” and “First Reformed”

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Both films show how human faith falters in the face of planetary crisis. Only it’s not the Cold War anymore.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 14, 2018 Cold War, dog days classics, film, religion

Rubles and Juicy Fruit: Touring Russia During the Cold War and Today

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May 1945, just six months after my husband Hal was born, World War II in Europe ended. However, […]

Unofficial Archives April 11, 2018 Cold War, material culture, Russia, Unofficial Archives

America and Russia: The Real Story Is Not What You Think

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We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]

Alex Sayf Cummings August 7, 2017 Cold War, Doomed to Repeat, politics, Russia

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