Victor Sebastyen, Lenin, Pantheon 2017, 363. In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run…
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“The Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups…
The Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae,…
On the question “how are we to live in an atomic age?” the writer C.S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a…
A grinning young couple points upward toward a caption reading “our simple seggs aftercare routine.” They playact the steps: shower, snuggle, bed. Scroll: next video,…
I think about The Zone of Interest (2023) while I am making my kids’ lunches, running their baths, folding laundry. Similar domestic routines make up…
In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that…
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West…
In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung…
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and…