Our Troubled Present
This week we grapple with two mass shootings, racial histories, and contemporary governance
Issachar Ber Ryback, from “Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance,” depicting a pogrom in Ukraine. Image credit: Public Domain Review
Racial Reckonings
Nadia Kim, “Sexual Objects and Sexual Threats–What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women: The Atlanta killings have all the hallmarks of a hate crime.” (March 25, 2021)
Michael Leroy Oberg and Joel Helfrich, “Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet: Opportunities for justice abound as she takes the helm at a branch of government that has historically mishandled and cheated indigenous people.” (March 24, 2021)
Neil Karpenko, Ukraine Has An Anti-Semitism Problem: While America struggles against ultra-right nationalism, one of our allies is embracing it.” (March 25, 2021)
Simon Garnett, “The New Essentialism: Old ways of thinking are returning–again.” (March 25, 2021)
Politics Abroad
Omri Boehm, Micha Brumlik, Shimon Stein, and Moshe Zimmermann, “Beyond the Two-State Solution: A decimated Left is at a crossroads. Is the only chance for meaningful opposition to drop the doctrine that Zionism requires a Jewish State? A discussion.” (March 25, 2021)
Books
Cristina Groeger, “The Education Trap: Schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston.” (March 22, 2021)
Our Columnists
Heather Cox Richardson, “As Biden Reverses GOP Policies, SCOTUS May Stand In the Way: An all-out legal attack by Republican attorneys general will be warmly welcomed by Trump appointees.” (March 25, 2021)
Pat Garafolo, “State Secrets: Let’s ban non-disclosure agreements in government economic development deals.” (March 23, 2021)
Claire Potter, “Our Nation Is a Shooting Gallery: But anyone who pretends there’s nothing we can do is lying.” (March 25, 2021)
John Stoehr, “We Must Concede That By Tolerating Shooting Massacres, We Are Choosing Not to Be Free: Democracy is the path toward greater freedom for all.” (March 25, 2021)
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