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Podcast The Migrant’s Jail
October 23, 2024
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails.
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Interview Eric Storm on the rise and evolution of nationalism
October 28, 2024
Is nationalism more alive than ever? Eric Storm, author of “Nationalism,” discusses the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present.
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Essay Deep time and the Civil War dead
October 15, 2024
In rocky tombs, formed millions of years before Gettysburg, rested the fossilized remains of a riotous wonder of life that had cavorted and gnashed its way through the continent’s primordial seas and landscapes. This lost world had been unearthed piecemeal in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Essay Up from feudalism: the Black American liberal tradition
October 03, 2024
What did it mean to be an enlightened “liberal” in the United States before the twentieth century? What’s race got to do with it?
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Essay Narrative images, sacred places
September 30, 2024
Close inspection of a "kalamkari" shows the work is exemplary of early modern temple paintings, which in form and subject mirror the concentric enclosing walls of the Hindu temple.
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Essay Monuments on fire
October 23, 2024
In October 2023, one monument met its end for the sake of another. A bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1924 was sent to the furnace to be melted down, piece by piece, and formed into uniform rectangular ingots. The developing afterlife of the Lee statue is part of another history—one that transcends the American context and dates back centuries earlier.
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